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How seasonal is Easter lamb?
How seasonal is spring lamb? Elisabeth Winkler explains why you should choose a flavoursome and economic alternative, such as hogget or m...
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...
The ‘Wall’ and other barriers to food security
‘The olive tree is like a child. I tend its growth as I would tend my children.’ Awad Melhim sits on a rock on a sunny windy day in Anin,...
Peri-urban agriculture: Feeding us where the urban and rural meet
There are exciting opportunities for using land on the edge of cities – the peri-urban (areas adjacent to urban settlements) fringe – to ...
Neonics, sugar and vegetable oils
Our Policy Director Richard Young delves into the impacts of neonicotinoid use in UK agriculture on food security and health, drawing som...
The kindness of butchers – why a small, farmer-owned abattoir in southern Germany is thriving. Pt III
Marianne Landzettel has been looking at sustainable agricultural systems and relocalised food production in her native Germany. This is t...
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
Food waste: The blame game
Over half of the food we produce is thrown away each year. With the emphasis being placed on consumers to tackle the problem, are we real...
Let them graze! Keeping dairy cows on grass has multiple benefits
Advertisers love to put images of grazing cows on dairy products. However, the animals you are mostly likely to see grazing in the Britis...
Paying a proper price for milk: What dairy cows deserve
I watched the recent Panorama programme, A Cow’s Life: The True Cost of Milk, which featured disturbing practices on a large-scale dairy ...
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...
Sourdough and digestibility
Why is it that some people find they can digest some sourdough bread with ease, but not all sourdough? Vanessa Kimbell shares some of the...