- Grow your own
- Environment & ethics
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How I bought no food for a year
Sustainability adventurer Rob Greenfield has just completed a year spent growing and foraging for food - here's how and why he did it.
By Rob Greenfield - 9th December 2019
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- News from the farm
- Health
For love of bitter leaves
Radicchio, escarole, endive, and their common progenitor, dandelion, are at their best in the autumn as light levels and temperatures drop.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 21st November 2019
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- Health
- Farming
Report exposes 'pesticide cocktail' effect
Over a third of fruit and veg and a quarter of all food contains a ‘cocktail’ of pesticides that pose greater health risks than each chemical tested individually, report finds.
By Nina Pullman - 22nd October 2019
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- Health
- Meat
How plant-based diets reduce disease
At what age should I start eating a healthy diet to reduce my risk of cancer? The answer may surprise you, writes gut health specialist Dr Alan Desmond.
By Alan Desmond - 22nd May 2019
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- Health
A sauerkraut success story
Two fermenting enthusiasts from Somerset have launched a rather unusual world record attempt - to make the biggest amount of sauerkraut in one go to help promote the importance of gut health.
By Nina Pullman - 2nd May 2019
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- Veganism
- Animal welfare
What's the point of Veganuary?
Since the Veganuary campaign launched in 2014, more than 250,000 people worldwide have taken the pledge to try veganism for the month of January. 2019 has already broken records, with 14,000 people…
By Emily Muddeman - 4th January 2019
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- Health
ITV donates £2m to ground-breaking veg campaign
Broadcaster ITV has donated £2 million to a campaign to promote consumption of vegetables in the form of primetime TV advertising space.
By Nina Pullman - 9th October 2018
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- Farming
- Food waste
Small but perfectly farmed
An obsessive attention to waste, absolute efficiency and micro supply chains – could a Marie Kondo-approach to farming hold the key to sustainability?
By Anna Turns - 22nd January 2020
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- Environment & ethics
- Animal welfare
Levison Wood backs Living with Wildlife campaign
New project from Send a Cow and Tusk, and matched by government funding, will offer training in sustainable farming to replace poaching in Uganda.
By Nina Pullman - 20th January 2020
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- Cartoon
- Meat
Ellis: Apocalypse Cow
Ellis on George Monbiot's prediction of the end of all farming as we know it and 'Apocalypse Cow'.
By Ellis - 17th January 2020
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- Politics
- Farming
- Soil
Farmers to be paid for protecting environment
Government confirms new farm subsidies will be based on environmental protection in new Agriculture Bill.
By Nina Pullman - 16th January 2020
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- Diversity
- Farming
- Meat
A wake-up call to farmers and foodies
Diverse ideas and ecosystems are key to a truly sustainable agricultural revolution and the best takeaway from the Oxford Real Farming Conference, writes journalist Anna Turns.
By Anna Turns - 16th January 2020
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- News from the farm
- Meat
- Climate change
Apocalypse Cow and the end of farming
For now, I will continue to sit on the fence: advocating much less meat, rewilding the least productive 20-30 per cent of land, more perennial food crops, a lot more dahl, and as much lab-grown meat…
By Guy Singh-Watson - 16th January 2020
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