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Food Movement
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...
Ragman’s Lane Farm: creating diverse rural livelihoods
Watch our new film about Ragman's Lane - a farm based on permaculture design principles. The farm has a diversity of enterprises and is ...
Center for Land-Based Learning: Q&A with Sridharan Sethuratnam
We find out how the Center for Land-Based Learning is working to encourage a new generation of farmers in this Q&A with California Farm A...
Our future farmers: Huw Richards-Price reaching far and wide
Huw Richards-Price is encouraging thousands of people to learn more about where their food comes from and how to grow it with his success...
SFT at the ORFC: Nurturing nature, diet and young farmers
Last week we headed to the ORFC where Patrick Holden chaired a session on nature conservation, Richard Young spoke about fats in the diet...