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Book excerpt: Going to Seed, by Simon Fairlie
The following extract is from Simon Fairlie’s new book Going to Seed: A Counterculture Memoir (Chelsea Green Publishing, February 2022) a...
Reviews: Food and farming film and TV 2022
Escape the Saturday evening endless-scroll and settle down with one of the latest films from the world of food and farming
Film review: Cow
Director: Andrea Arnold The recently released documentary ‘Cow’, is a confronting and bleak insight into the realities of life as a cow o...
Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022 in review
January kicks off once again with the event that pretty much everyone involved with sustainable food and farming signs up for: the Oxford...
A small scale farmer’s take on ORFC
For the second year in a row, COVID-19 had forced the conference to go online. This was something of a double-edged sword for Julie Baber.
Book Review: Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production
Nicolette Hahn Niman’s compelling argument for the value of ruminants and their integral relationship with land and soil, laid out in Def...
Why the CCC should reconsider their approach to farming
Earlier this month, global leaders met in Scotland to discuss the future of our climate. While many activists wanted to see stronger comm...
Reflections from a busy week at COP26
Our Deputy CEO Adele Jones gives an update on COP26
COP26 farming event and new initiative show how agriculture can be a climate change solution
Food and farming event at COP26 and launch of ambitious new initiative shines a light on the power of agriculture to be a climate change ...
Media briefing: Farming can be a climate change solution, so why is it missing in action at COP26?
We share key messages ahead of COP26
Fincastle: Sustainable hill farming is the future
Silvopasture in the uplands increases biodiversity, carbon sequestration and overall viability, writes Robert Barbour.
Grasslands+: Save our species-rich meadows and grasslands
Meadows and other wildlife-rich grasslands are at the heart of sustainable farming systems, supporting an extraordinary diversity of wild...