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Small abattoirs crucial for transition to sustainable farming
Small abattoirs were the focus again at last week’s Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC), with an expert panel including Defra, farmers,...
Book Review: Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production
Nicolette Hahn Niman’s compelling argument for the value of ruminants and their integral relationship with land and soil, laid out in Def...
The Value of Veg
With Christmas just around the corner, there’s something on everyone’s mind – Christmas dinner. What will you serve this year? A bird, ha...
Making Christmas more sustainable
Christmas, more than any other holiday in the year, is about tradition. We have inherited a patchwork quilt of customs, stitched together...
Labelling for animal welfare: A response
Many of us are increasingly aware of the impact of our food choices, whether that be on the environment, our health or animal welfare. Bu...
Talking giblets: Animal welfare and the Christmas turkey
Spare a thought for turkey this Christmas and buy well. Here's our guide of what to look for in your Christmas bird
How healthy is your soil?
In celebration of World Soil Day, December 5, 2021, we want to help farmers around the world to better understand their soil. Our soils a...
The kindness of butchers – why a small, farmer-owned abattoir in southern Germany is thriving (Pt I)
Marianne Landzettel has been looking at sustainable agricultural systems and relocalised food production in her native Germany. This is t...
The international range of ‘agroecology’
In the UK, agroecology is increasing in profile. Included in the Agriculture Act and in the National Food Strategy, the UK Government see...
Why the CCC should reconsider their approach to farming
Earlier this month, global leaders met in Scotland to discuss the future of our climate. While many activists wanted to see stronger comm...
Recipe: Lentil Ragu
Our friend Josiah Meldrum from Hodmedod joined us on our recent Sustainable Food Stories podcast. Hodmedod’s are known across the UK as g...
Food insecurity: The exarcerbating factors
If this pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that health is vitally important, and as a society, everyone must work together to recover ...