If you’re anywhere near Edinburgh this bank holiday weekend, why not go along and visit one of our newer members, Solar Ripe, who are having an open day on Sunday? Have a warm welcome, a wander round and a beautiful cup of herbal tea. To find out more, click here.
Category Archives: General
The Power of We
This post is written for Blog Action Day 2012 How hard we humans work at the miracle of planting seed in the ground and watching it grow into food. Because of course it doesn’t just “grow”, it has to be in fruitful soil, receive the right nutrients, the right amount of water, the right care….
An update on updates
Now we’re well into 2012, and based on comments from readers, we want to do something a little different on the blog. The weekly news updates will move to a monthly format, and we’ll be writing other articles here which we hope will be useful to our members, their customers and to all those interested…
Weekly round-up - 6 November 2024
Welcome to this week’s round-up of interesting snippets from around the world of wholesome food. Storing root veg First up this week is a useful little article from Farm in My Pocket about storing carrots, parsnips, beetroot, swedes and turnips. It covers three options: storing in the ground, in boxes and in clamps. Plus a…
Weekly round-up - 16 October 2024
Welcome to this week’s round-up of interesting snippets from around the world of wholesome food. Sustainable Food Cities The Soil Association and others have this week announced the launch of a Sustainable Food Cities Network. This aims to: …give as many people as possible the knowledge and skills to access affordable healthy and sustainable food…
11 September 2024
This isn’t going to be one of our usual weekly updates. I can’t type the date above without acknowledging today’s anniversary. Ten years since the world watched in disbelief as the twin towers fell in New York. I was working in the heart of the City of London at the time. I remember the horror…
Weekly round-up: 12 June 2024
Of course: a rainy week in Britain just as the news is full of low water tables and drought. So this article about how to mend a hosepipe might have to wait until next year… Levity aside, this summer, drought is likely to make things difficult for kitchen gardeners, smallholders and farmers in Britain. We’re…
The urban homesteading movement
Urban Homesteading is a phrase that’s more common in the United States than in Britain, but we’re beginning to hear it more frequently. It’s become shorthand for a huge grassroots movement of people across the world who strive to live more sustainably, usually by growing and preserving as much of their own food as possible,…
So are you all a bunch of hippies?
When I was appointed managing director of the Wholesome Food Association earlier this year, I started explaining to various friends and acquaintances what it’s all about. Pretty simple really: We’re a non-profit organisation providing an alternative labelling system for small growers and food producers who can’t afford the cost and time involved in organic certification…