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Food and Culture
Farming as the Climate Changes: Soul Fire Farm, Petersburg, New York
We talk to Soul Fire Farm about how climate change is affecting them and what they are doing to mitigate it
The unseen as fertile ground for new wisdom
Vivien Sansour, founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, dares us to be bold and imaginative in the face of crisis
Gardening brings hope in refugee camps
Jennie Spears from the Lemon Tree Trust describes how supporting gardening in refugee camps helps to meet practical, social and psycholog...
The self sufficiency surge
Gardening journalist, Kim Stoddart examines the grow your own phenomenon that has emerged as a result of fears around food security since...
Harmony in education at a time of crisis
Richard Dunne, Harmony in Education Lead, asks how an understanding of the world as interconnected can inform the way in which we choose ...
Thoughtful eating
Lizzie Rowe writes about polarisation of the meat debate and how it is driving a dangerous divide between people united by the same aim: ...
Meat, veganism and sustainable diets: How the Elizabethan’s can help us find a little perspective
Meat has become one of the most contentious areas of our food system, but arguments for a plant-based diet are not new. Taking an histori...
‘Clean meat’ is neither – we can and must do better
Faux meats may seem a tempting strategy for fixing the food system, but they are not progress, they are a distraction
Why our love for avocados is not sustainable
Avocados have become synonymous with millennial culture but the increasingly international trade of the South American fruit comes with a...
Loss of a small abattoir and a small farm future
Chris Smaje writes about why the loss of a small abattoir in Somerset is a step in the wrong direction if we are to create a resilient lo...
What makes a sustainable Christmas dinner? The ecological footprint of festive feasting
In order to get a grasp on what a sustainable, ecologically conscious Christmas meal might look like, we’ve taken a look at the ecologica...
A brief history of wheat
Most of us eat grains every day – but how much do we know about this grain that forms such a significant part of our diet, and how has th...