Water - Wicked Leeks

Food, Farming, Fairness.

WL Meets

WL Meets: Julian Carnell, taking us on an eye-opening journey along the River Dart

We meet the author of a new book on the River Dart, Chair of the Wild Dart Partnership, and Director of The Sharpham Trust.

Water Environment and ethics

Opinion

Taking back control… of water

Water Climate change Farming

News

‘Whiplash weather’: climate impact on Spanish fruit emerges

Water Climate change Farming

Opinion

Searching for horticultural utopia

Most of the crops have been planted into ‘stale seedbeds’: an ancient technique that creates beds with a loose, fine top layer of soil.

Water Farming News from the farm

Features

Is it time to choose sustainable rice?

You might not know it, but traditional rice cultivation emits serious levels of greenhouse gases. Clare Hargreaves interviews a man working with rice farmers to get climate-friendlier rice onto British dinner plates.

Lifestyle

Beyond the bird feeder: Weeds that help conserve water

To help keep soil covered during hot weather, I am relying on the faithful weeds to do their good work, writes Alys Fowler.

Opinion

Water, unbridled capitalism and geese

We have already started rationing water according to need and value, with late artichokes being abandoned and cabbages having a restricted supply.