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The Wicked Leeks Ethical Christmas Gift Guide 2021

With a focus on crafts, beauty and other original low-impact gifts from small ethical businesses – share the joy of a sustainable Christmas with our 2021 gift guide.

Ethical business Fairtrade Fashion and beauty Recycling Seeds

Features

Breeding for flavour in organic

Organics Seeds

Features

Guardians of diversity

Biodiversity Seeds

Features

Breeding food for nutrition: common sense or quasi science?

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.

Farming Health Seeds

Opinion

Starting the year with heritage seeds

The new Grow Your Own Wicked Leeks series is written by Garden Organic, the national charity for organic growing, and brings you seasonal advice on what to do in your own organic patch.

Features

A perennial revolution

Perennial crops reduce cultivation of soil, increase carbon sequestration and can improve resilience of farming systems. So what’s holding them back? Nick Easen investigates.

Opinion

Save our seeds: a plea for diversity

Rebel seed-savers and small commercial breeders are leading a minor fight-back with non-hybrid varieties contributing to genetic diversity and food security.