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Sustainability and Harmony Internship
Llandovery College has created an exciting new internship programme linking principles of food, harmony and health. Interns will learn about, and help to develop, a healthy and nutritious food syst...
Measuring and valuing on-farm sustainability
Watch the film of our session at the Oxford Real Farming Conference where we presented our work on sustainability metrics
The Flavour of Good Farming
Bronwen explores the case for valorising the link between sustainability and flavour, using artisan cheese making as a case study.
Stories of the soil
Poet Adam Horovitz explores the relationship between farming and poetry and talks about his experience of visiting and writing about British livestock farms for his recent anthology, The Soil Never...
Harmony at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2018
Building upon the success of last years conference, the SFT hosted a Harmony in Food and Farming inspired session at this year’s Oxford Real Farming Conference highlighting the importance of integr...
Farmerama Radio: Biodynamic vines, Catalonian chickens and medicinal plants
This month on Farmerama we hear from a young Welsh Biodynamic wine maker, a chicken farmer in Catalonia and the owner of community-supported Kamayan Farm, near Seattle
Sustainability Assessment: The Case for Convergence report
This report demonstrates a significant opportunity for convergence in sustainability assessment tools by identifying the best features of the existing tools and where there is scope for further har...
Does common sense about health require a new paradigm?
Common Sense About Health, recently published by Dr. Peter Mansfield, is far ahead of its time. No ordinary diet or lifestyle book; it distills the wisdom that Mansfield has gained through decades ...
Eating your values: Five questions to ask your butcher
Many of us want to shop in line with our values when it comes to buying meat, but in practice it can be a complicated web of labels and terminology. We've laid out five questions that help you get ...
How paying subsidies to farmers saves us money in the end
Megan Perry writes for Food Manifesto about the SFT's recent report on the Hidden Cost of UK Food and why subsidies can play a crucial role in helping create a sustainable food system
Oxford Real Farming Conference 2018: “The times, they are a changing”
Now in its 9th year, the Oxford Real Farming Conference has made itself a priority in the diaries of anyone and everyone engaged in sustainable food and agriculture – the ORFC is full of farmers, b...
Patrick Holden on The World Tonight
Patrick speaks on The World Tonight alongside Labour MP Kerry McCarthy about Michael Gove's post-Brexit plans