- Local sourcing
- Organics
Back to the grind
Ancient water and windmills across the UK have doubled production to help fill a national flour ‘shortage’ with close links to communities and sustainable wheat growing.
By Hugh Thomas - 1st June 2020
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- Ethical business
- Local sourcing
The battle at Vauxhall City Farm
The struggle for land and the right to green spaces might sound like a rural issue, but on one urban farm it’s playing out in a very different environment.
By Jessica Brown - 28th May 2020
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
- Local sourcing
Make your own summer drinks
Enjoy an ice-cold homemade ginger beer, bottle your own limoncello or sip a delicious blueberry and apple shrub with these top summer drinks recipes.
By Nina Pullman - 28th May 2020
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- Environment & ethics
- Local sourcing
- Food waste
Five eco lessons I’ve learnt from lockdown
From ditching her car, getting creative with leftovers and buying direct from producers, Anna Turns writes about the eco lessons learnt during lockdown.
By Anna Turns - 15th May 2020
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
- Local sourcing
How to forage like a chef
From vegan 'honey' made from dandelions to nettle pesto and homemade cordial – here’s how to look twice at everyday plants and learn to forage like a chef.
By Lewis Glanvill - 7th May 2020
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- Eating & drinking
- Local sourcing
- Food waste
Food union helps ‘devastated’ eating-out sector
A new food union in Bristol is fighting to save livelihoods of chefs and suppliers after coronavirus restaurant closures leave supply chains reeling.
By Nina Pullman - 8th April 2020
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- Farming
- Local sourcing
- Inequality
A question of ownership
A scheme helping new farmers to access land is creating a network of small-scale regenerative farms and tackle the imbalance in land ownership in the UK.
By Anna Turns - 8th 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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- Local sourcing
- Food waste
The new face of food supply
As coronavirus leaves traditional food supply chains overloaded, farmers, suppliers and communities are helping deliver to the most vulnerable.
By David Jesudason - 25th March 2020
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- Dairy
- Climate change
- Biodiversity
Cows and carbon: Can dairy be good for the planet?
Trewithen Dairy in Cornwall is taking part in a new carbon project to monitor and improve their farmers' soils and explore the benefits of regenerative farming.
By Anna Turns - 16th September 2021
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- Eating & drinking
- Eat more veg
Know your autumn squash varieties
Marvellously bright and beautifully varied veg that herald the start of autumn - get to know the different squash varieties and how to use them.
By Wicked Leeks - 16th September 2021
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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
Best of the bitter flavours
Although we consume vast amounts of coffee or beer, bitter flavours on our plate are mostly ignored, with little attention given to these vibrant leaves which are not only delicious but also a…
By Becky Blench - 16th September 2021
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- News from the farm
- Climate change
- Biodiversity
Don't let our progress be a fig leaf
Rather than showing that it is possible for businesses to find the solutions to get us out of the mess we are all in, Riverford may be the exception that proves the rule.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 14th September 2021
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- Climate change
- Net zero
- Technology
Turning carbon into rock
Iceland launches world’s largest carbon capture plant to transform CO2 into basalt rock and help speed up climate mitigation.
By Anna Turns - 13th September 2021
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- Inequality
- Mental health
- Food waste
Let’s talk about money
Over summer, requests came in to help people who hadn’t eaten as an extra nine million people increased their borrowing over the pandemic to stay afloat, writes Chantelle Norton of Food in Community.
By Chantelle Norton - 13th September 2021
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