How to run a monthly farm gate sale (and why you should give it a go) Nigel Akehurst·May 7, 2025Back in 2021, I shared a post called How to Start a Meat Box Business, which struck a...Food·0 Comments·0·81 views
The truly local loaf – my home grain experience Oliver Rubinstein Baylis·August 2, 2022Cereal production is fundamentally inaccessible for most people. For eight months of the year the fields look just...FarmingFood·0 Comments·0·267 views
How to start a meat box business Nigel Akehurst·February 20, 2021Over the last few years I’ve built up a small meat box business direct from our family farm....Food·0 Comments·1·5425 views
Q&A: Martin & Hazel Tkalez – Pevensey Cheese Company Nigel Akehurst·November 15, 2020We recently interviewed Martin and Hazel Tkalez, from the Pevensey Cheese Company to learn more about their journey...Food·1 Comment·0·1661 views
Experiencing Lambing made me think about eating them again Jessica Peace·April 28, 2019Freelance Horticulturalist and Writer Jessica Peace shares her experiences of lambing and re-thinking her relationship with meat.. I...Food·1 Comment·0·1225 views
Is Defra missing the chance to integrate food, the environment and farmer livelihoods? Elise Wach·May 6, 2018Despite the title ‘Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit’...FarmingFood·1 Comment·0·392 views
How do we transform our food systems? Elise Wach·October 13, 2017With only 60 years of harvests left, how do we transform our food systems? In relation to food...Food·0 Comments·0·1082 views
Bullying and intimidation in abattoirs threatens food safety checks Andrew Wasley·April 19, 2017Food safety and animal welfare checks in abattoirs are being hampered because of bullying and harassment of inspection...Food·0 Comments·0·440 views
Local grain economies and enlightened bread making James Friend·April 1, 2017James Friend considers the importance of local grain economies to enlightened bread-making and explores what determines the quality of...Food·1 Comment·0·847 views
José Pizarro: “British asparagus is best in the world” Hugh Thomas·September 18, 2016‘I’m very disappointed,’ says the multi-eponymous-restaurant-owning José Pizarro. Referring, rather lugubriously, to the results of the EU referendum....Food·0 Comments·0·245 views
