- Health
- Inequality
- Farming
Coronavirus sends home delivery soaring
Home delivery and box schemes see unprecedented demand as UK food supply struggles in face of coronavirus outbreak.
By Nina Pullman - 19th March 2020
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- Cartoon
- Health
Ellis: Kindness not corona
Ellis is heartened to hear of the wave of kindness in communities to help the most vulnerable or those in self isolation for coronavirus.
By Ellis - 19th March 2020
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- Climate change
- Health
Anxiety is normal but not inevitable
Meaningful actions, conversations with others and searching for positive news can all help relieve anxiety around both climate and coronavirus, writes behaviour expert Amy Leech.
By Amy Leech - 18th March 2020
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- Health
How to spread kindness not coronavirus
As the UK government urges people to work from home and reduce social contact, a growing wave of kind acts within the community are helping to boost morale and protect the most vulnerable.
By Nina Pullman - 17th March 2020
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- Recipes
- Eating & drinking
Top five healthy midweek dinners
Stuck at home due to coronavirus? Try these quick and healthy midweek dinners and mix up your usual repertoire with comfort curries, lemon gnocchi or colourful salads - all packed full of veg and…
By Becky Marshall - 16th March 2020
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- Health
- Climate change
Coronavirus: what have we learnt?
A spike in home delivery, impact on food banks and a country ready to rapidly mobilise: here’s what coronavirus can teach us about food sustainability and climate action.
By Nina Pullman - 13th March 2020
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- Health
- Organics
Organic farmers ‘have better mental health’
There is a link between regenerative farming systems and better farmer mental health, finds Marina O'Connell in her Master's thesis.
By Marina O'Connell - 4th March 2020
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- Environment & ethics
- Health
Why prisoners deserve ethical healthy food
For the first time in a long time, people there are excited about prison food. Those of us outside the prison system should be, too, writes Ruby Tandoh.
By Ruby Tandoh - 25th February 2020
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- Health
- Environment & ethics
Pesticide giants making billions from hazardous chemicals
A third of sales from top five pesticide companies are in chemicals classed as ‘highly hazardous’, at odds with corporate ‘sustainability’ PR image.
By Nina Pullman - 20th February 2020
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Latest articles
- Grow your own
- Inequality
Allotment land declines as demand surges
Study finds allotment land has fallen by 65 per cent since mid 1900s with urban deprived areas most affected, despite benefits to food security and mental health.
By Nina Pullman - 1st April 2020
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- Local sourcing
- Climate change
Covid-19 is bringing local food to the fore
Coronavirus shows us how there is a resilient local food supply chain ready and waiting in the wings with huge potential for food security, writes Marina O’Connell.
By Marina O'Connell - 1st April 2020
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- Veg Hacks
- Recipes
Veg Hacks: Salt-baked celeriac
Watch the first of the new Veg Hacks series and try salt-baked celeriac: a no fuss way of approaching this gnarly-looking vegetable.
By Bob Andrew - 30th March 2020
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- Food waste
- Eating & drinking
How to freeze fruit
From a segment of lemon for an emergency G&T to ready-to-go fruit compotes – here’s how to freeze what fruit.
By Bob Andrew - 30th March 2020
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- Food waste
- Eating & drinking
How to freeze veg
Make your own frozen mash, keep a stash of herbs or learn how to freeze each type of leafy green in these top tips for how to freeze veg.
By Bob Andrew - 30th March 2020
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- News from the farm
- Farming
Valuing what is close
If there is a silver lining to this cloud, it may be that we learn to value more what is close – be that vegetables or people.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 26th March 2020
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