What do you picture when you hear the words ‘free range’? Bright, spacious hen houses? Small flocks roaming on green pastures? The reality is very different.
By Ellen Warrell - 31st January 2021
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From playing music to hens and dousing seeds in hot water to brewing up potent compost: a scheme running farmer-led research is helping spread sustainable farming techniques across the UK.
By Jack Thompson - 28th January 2021
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January's GYO column is all about choosing what to grow - a time of great excitement for any gardener and the chance to try new seed choices as well as old friends.
By Sarah Brown - 7th January 2021
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Owner of household dairy brand Yeo Valley, Tim Mead, talks to Wicked Leeks on risk taking, how storing carbon in soil counters methane emissions, and what he thinks of plant milks.
By Jack Thompson - 8th December 2020
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December’s GYO Wicked Leeks column is all about how to put your festive cardboard packaging to good use in the garden.
By Sarah Brown - 1st December 2020
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Rumours abound that high welfare hens produce orange egg yolks, but that’s not necessarily true.
By Nina Pullman - 23rd November 2020
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Organic business leaders speak out to warn that accelerating biodiversity losses and climate change make this the most important decade ever faced by humanity and urge businesses to act.
By Nina Pullman - 22nd October 2020
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Mindfulness and sustainable food have always been at the heart of Sharpham Estate, but lockdown brought them to the fore in new ways.
By Nina Pullman - 19th October 2020
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Meet the farmer selling meat from retired dairy cows to apply organic ethics to end of life and pioneer an alternative to the short life-cycle dairy industry.
By Anna Turns - 18th September 2020
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The agri revolution led to a focus on crop yields above all else – but researchers are beginning to look again at nutrition in our food.
By Jack Thompson - 9th April 2021
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The Netflix documentary has been welcomed for spotlighting damage from large-scale fishing while its claim that no fish is sustainable is disputed.
By Nina Pullman - 8th April 2021
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More than just reefs and rainforests, habitat diversity also covers the heaths, woodlands, fens and bogs closer to home. Here's how you can help protect and visit some of the habitat restoration…
By Becky Blench - 8th April 2021
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Charity Surfers Against Sewage hopes to galvanise 100,000 Brits to clean a million miles of rivers, beaches and green spaces to counter the rise in single-use plastic since the pandemic.
By Nina Pullman - 8th April 2021
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I found it hard to disagree with the main conclusion of Seaspiracy: that there is almost no sustainable fishing, and the labels claiming sustainability fall a long way short of delivering it.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 8th April 2021
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The pandemic has brought a fresh perspective on the power of community and feelings of injustice: let’s channel this anger positively and build dignified food security for all, writes David Markson.
By David Markson - 6th April 2021
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