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Opinion

In praise of winter salad

After December’s cold snap, we believe more than ever that tunnel cropping is a force for good; not only for our delicate salad crops, but for our reliable, diligent team of field workers, writes grower Alex Stephens.

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Features

Stack it up: One farm, five farmers?

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News

Soil is ‘huge opportunity’ to tackle climate change on farms

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News

Double your bean intake to save cost and climate

Beans are an affordable, nutritious and sustainable protein crop that could help tackle food, cost-of-living and climate crises, says new campaign backed by chefs, researchers and NGOs.

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News

Outrage at reports of subsidy U-turn

Backlash grows over reports Defra is considering scaling back a planned move to nature-friendly farming subsidies.

Lifestyle

Grow peat free this autumn

Learn how to garden peat-free ahead of a new ban on sales of peat compost in our September Grow Your Own column.

Features

Back to school: Food growing on the curriculum

From soil health to regenerative farming – here’s how some pioneering schools are going further than watercress and pond dipping.