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Feeding the 5000 in Bristol
Bristol played host to one of Feeding the 5000's first en masse public feedings, this feast of epic proportions comprised solely of food ...
The uncertain future of GM
With the US Food and Drug Administration’s current consideration of whether a giant GM Salmon is fit for human consumption, GM foods are ...
Pastoralist communities vs safari parks
Patrick Holden reflects upon his inspiring and emotional trip to Kenya, visiting pastoralist communities, while staying at a game-lodge a...
Tea and spices in Sri Lanka
Nicola Robecchi has been traveling around Sri Lanka visiting tea and spice farmers from the Fairtrade network
Organic supplier calls quits
Matthew Murton was a large scale organic vegetable producer. Now, he's decided to drop all ties as an organic wholesaler and sell up. Pat...
Eat real
It's time to revitalise food. Anya Fernald’s Eat Real Manifesto urges us to support sustainable agriculture and the growth regional food ...
SFT – Proposals for 2012
Read about the most important actions Patrick Holden is committed to, in order to further the mission of the Sustainable Food Trust this ...
The good ship, Irene
Jamie Pike, the visionary behind the New Dawn Traders, shares his thoughts at the start of a sustainable trade voyage across the Atlantic
Back to the land
In the early 1970s Patrick Holden and a group of like minded friends moved to a hill in Wales to start farming - here he explains what po...
Meditations on milk
Patrick Holden on how his connection to his farm and dairy herd informs his thinking on transition to the food systems we need for the fu...
Greening the desert
SEKEM is a biodynamic community project which over the last 35 years has transformed thousands of acres of virgin desert into fertile soi...