- Grow your own
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Learning to love weeds
Turning nettle stems into plant ties or basking in the brilliant blue of a forget-me-not – here’s how you can manage and learn to love your garden weeds.
By Sarah Brown - 29th April 2020
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- Organics
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Meet the veg of tomorrow
Mini vegetables for smaller households, caulis that can thrive in heat and new stripy aubergines – here’s what’s coming over the hill in organic seed breeding.
By Michael Barker - 21st April 2020
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- Growers and suppliers
- Ethical business
- Organics
A view from Peru
The cost of organic fruit and veg from Peru covers stringent labour laws and social benefits to workers, as well as tricky terrain requiring jobs to be done by hand.
By Nina Pullman - 20th April 2020
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- Grow your own
- Organics
Prevention before pellets
The fourth edition of Grow Your Own Wicked Leeks is all about how to take peaceful revenge on every gardener's worst nightmare - slugs and snails.
By Sarah Brown - 23rd 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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- News from the farm
- Organics
Growing caulis is in my Cornish heritage
There’s nothing quite like the peppery taste of a fresh organic cauliflower from Cornwall in the middle of a British winter.
By Paul Badcock - 27th February 2020
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- Ethical business
- Fairtrade
- Organics
Palestine’s Fairtrade olive branch
Cut off from the rest of the world and restricted in access to water and even their own farms, Palestine's olive farmers use Fairtrade as a vital lifeline to tell their story.
By Nina Pullman - 25th February 2020
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- The big interview
- Ethical business
- Organics
Cereal sustainability
Alex Smith tells Wicked Leeks how finding £2 on the floor led to the world's first organic cereal brand and why changing power structures is the key to true sustainability.
By Nina Pullman - 19th February 2020
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- Plant-based
- Organics
Rooting for plant milks
Reusable glass bottles and ethically-sourced organic plant ingredients are at the heart of new plant milk company ReRooted, founders Rich Eckersley and Dan Dawson tell Wicked Leeks.
By Nina Pullman - 11th February 2020
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- Ethical business
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Pressure grows over KitKat Fairtrade decision
World Chocolate Day will take place among growing pressure for Nestle to reverse decision to stop buying Fairtrade cocoa and sugar.
By Nina Pullman - 7th July 2020
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- Plastic
- Packaging
- Food waste
Poland’s plastic alternative
A sustainable packaging start-up is collecting waste fruit and veg from farms and converting it into an edible packaging material using the kombucha drink fermentation technique.
By Juliette Bretan - 6th July 2020
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- Veg Hacks
- Recipes
Veg Hacks: Radish pickle
Learn how to pickle radishes in this week's Veg Hack with chef James Evans.
By James Evans - 3rd July 2020
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- Grow your own
Wise watering
Water is a precious resource – July's GYO Wicked Leeks column is all about how to use it wisely in your garden, maximise soil moisture and conserve water if you’re going away.
By Sarah Brown - 2nd July 2020
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- News from the farm
Blueberries in the blood
Even up until the 1990s, we were the only ones growing them in the UK – that was before the health benefits around antioxidants became known and it really took off.
By David Trehane - 2nd July 2020
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- Environment & ethics
- Ethical business
- News from the farm
Making measurement count
As previously, transport is our biggest sin, and the final delivery to the door is the most carbon costly – so we are converting over 70 per cent of our vans to electric by 2023.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 1st July 2020
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