- 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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Organics
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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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- Grow your own
- Organics
Planning your planting
The second edition of Grow Your Own Wicked Leeks is all about facing the February mud and savvy planting tips for your organic veg patch.
By Sarah Brown - 6th February 2020
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- Organics
- Plant-based
- Soil
New organic market report ‘disappointing’
Riverford founder Guy Singh-Watson said huge interest in green issues has failed to boost organic sector despite offering ‘solutions’.
By Nina Pullman - 6th February 2020
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- Farming
- Climate change
- Organics
Trees and diet lead new climate report
Cutting beef and dairy consumption by a fifth and increasing tree cover are among new recommendations by the government's Climate Change Committee in a report on land use.
By Nina Pullman - 23rd January 2020
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Latest articles
- Recipes
- Eating & drinking
Top five recipes to celebrate the kale season
As the days cool and autumn colours emerge, fresh British-grown kale comes into season offering a delicious splash of green in these top five kale recipes.
By Kirsty Hale - 22nd September 2020
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- News from the farm
- Ethical business
Can B Corp make business better?
We see the most vital benefit as not marking our own homework; regular assessment will highlight areas for improvement, and help us balance competing demands.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 21st September 2020
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- Biodiversity
- Environment & ethics
Campaigners gear up to protect nature
The National Trust and the Wildlife Trusts have both issued new calls to protect and restore nature via conservation efforts and designated ‘wild belt’ areas.
By Nina Pullman - 18th September 2020
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- Animal welfare
- Ethical business
- Organics
Sirloin, rib-eye or retired?
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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- Eating & drinking
- Recipes
For the love of figs
To celebrate peak Spanish fig season, grower José Maria Agusti gives us a snapshot of how this unique fruit is grown and picked on his farm near Barcelona.
By Becky Blench - 18th September 2020
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- Ethical business
- Climate change
- Politics
Oatly faces backlash over investor choice
Sustainable oat milk brand Oatly is facing criticism and delistings over its choice of investment from Blackstone, a private equity firm with alleged links to deforestation and donations to the Trump…
By Nina Pullman - 15th September 2020
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