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Volunteer opportunity on Scottish smallholding
This is an exciting opportunity for someone to experience living and working on an organic smallholding in a beautiful setting
Bristol Food Connections festival is back, and bigger than ever!
The week-long celebration of Bristol’s food scene will take place from 11-17th June, with over 120 events & activities in all corners of ...
Sustainable school dinners: What we should know
In the home you have control over what your children eat and where it comes from. But when they go to school, how much say do you have ov...
First it was fake farms, now fake bakeries?
Real Bread Campaign coordinator Chris Young asks: is a supermarket selling an industrial loaf under the name of a long-closed regional ba...
Growing future farmers
Locally grown, chemical-free vegetables are an essential component of a sustainable and healthy diet. But there is a worrying dearth of t...
Steps to sustainability: Stroud’s Fungusloci converts coffee waste into gourmet mushrooms
Fungusloci is a mushroom micro-farm growing gourmet oyster mushrooms on spent coffee grounds collected from local independent cafés
Can food manifestos transform the UK food system?
The UK’s decision to leave the EU will have considerable impact on its food system. We explore some of the food reports and manifestos th...
Approaching a United Nations declaration on peasant rights
Carlo Bolzoni reports on a gathering earlier this year in Geneva which sought to highlight the rights of peasants and rural working peopl...
The place of food in farming
Alicia Miller reflects on one of the sessions at the Harmony in Food and Farming conference which featured Darina Allen, Bronwen Percival...
A place at the table
Bristol-based chef, Barny Haughton, talks about the Square Food Foundation and it's work
A future for farming: Growing engagement with sustainability in agricultural education
A look at what is being done to train a new generation in the principles and practices of sustainable agriculture
Reconciling Systemic Discord – A Q&A with Gaye Donaldson and Nick Mayhew
Gaye Donaldson and Nick Mayhew will be running a session at the Harmony in Food and Farming Conference called Reconciling Systemic Discor...