The truly local loaf – my home grain experience
Cereal production is fundamentally inaccessible for most people. For eight months of the year the fields look just like grass. There are no cute lambs or calves... Read More...
Food
How to start a meat box business
Over the last few years I've built up a small meat box business direct from our family farm. It might not appeal to all farmers, but with very little in the way... Read More...
Q&A: Martin & Hazel Tkalez – Pevensey Cheese Company
We recently interviewed Martin and Hazel Tkalez, from the Pevensey Cheese Company to learn more about their journey to becoming cheese makers over the last two ... Read More...
Experiencing Lambing made me think about eating them again
Freelance Horticulturalist and Writer Jessica Peace shares her experiences of lambing and re-thinking her relationship with meat.. I haven’t eaten meat or d... Read More...
Is Defra missing the chance to integrate food, the environment and farmer livelihoods?
Despite the title ‘Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit’ Defra’s draft agricultural policy is missing just tha... Read More...
How do we transform our food systems?
With only 60 years of harvests left, how do we transform our food systems? In relation to food and farming, it is becoming increasingly apparent that working w... Read More...
Bullying and intimidation in abattoirs threatens food safety checks
Food safety and animal welfare checks in abattoirs are being hampered
because of bullying and harassment of inspection staff. Food Investigator Andrew Wasley r... Read More...
Local grain economies and enlightened bread making
James Friend considers the importance of local grain economies to enlightened bread-making and explores what determines the quality of bread, and why quality ma... Read More...
José Pizarro: “British asparagus is best in the world”
‘I’m very disappointed,’ says the multi-eponymous-restaurant-owning José Pizarro. Referring, rather lugubriously, to the results of the EU referendum. And who ... Read More...
Farm Tech: Open Food Network available in the UK
With the demand for quality local food on the increase we were delighted when Open Food Network got in touch to tell us their open source food hub software is n... Read More...