Welcome to this week’s round-up of interesting snippets from around the world of wholesome food. We’re just a couple of days past the Autumn Equinox in the Northern hemisphere. The veg in my organic box are taking on a distinct autumnal hue, and thoughts are turning to harvest celebrations. At Butcher, Baker, there are instructions…
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Weekly round-up - 18 September 2024
Welcome to this week’s round-up of interesting snippets from around the world of wholesome food. We’re well into Autumn now, and discussions at our sister site, Smallholders Online, are beginning to turn to maintenance and over-wintering, sewing green manure crops, clearing out polytunnels and all those “battening down the hatches” chores. If you’re not already…
Weekly round-up - 4 September 2024
Welcome to this week’s round-up of interesting snippets from around the world of wholesome food. Porkers Country Smallholding magazine has a new columnist, Liz Shankland. In her introductory article, Liz talks about how she became involved in pig-keeping and acknowledges the difficulties facing pig farmers: The past year has not been a good time for…
Weekly round-up - 18 August 2024
Welcome to this week’s round-up from around the world of wholesome growing, eating and cooking. Foraging First up, a reminder from Arigna Gardener that the hedgerows are swollen with goodies as we move through August, blackberries, elderberries and sloes among them. And Andy at Farm in My Pocket gives some useful tips here for recognising…
Weekly round-up - 21 August 2024
Welcome to this week’s update. Climate change forces species to the poles As we bask in sunshine today after a week of floods and storms in what is supposed to be a British high summer, you may not be surprised to hear that for the first time, the link has been demonstrated between climate change…
Weekly round-up: 15 August 2024
Welcome to this week’s update. Everything that can be written about the riots in our cities this past week has probably already been written. I will just say that what all our members are doing to promote locally distributed, wholesome food is part of a virtuous circle building up local communities. Whether our communities are…
Weekly round-up: 7 August 2024
Welcome to this week’s round-up as we move into the late summer heat of August. (Well, hot so far at least, but storms and floods brewing in Scotland.) How much land do you need? First up, the Sustainable Smallholding asks how much land is needed to grow food (in the writer’s case, for two people)….
Weekly round-up: 31 July 2024
This one should be fortnightly round-up: I missed last week because I was away. This week people across the country are in the swing of hay-making, and tomorrow marks the old harvest festival of Lammas. Here are some of the interesting bits and pieces people have been up to around the world of wholesome food-growing….
Weekly round-up - 17 July 2024
Welcome to this week’s round-up of articles related to wholesome food, gardening and cooking. Time critical - do today! I’ve only just noticed this, so am probably too late, but if you get a chance today, please complete the annual Ragwort Survey for the British Horse Society. This toxic plant kills many animals each year…
Weekly round-up: 10 July 2024
This week has seen Compassion in World Farming present its Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards to a variety of recipients. The awards include a new category, the Good Dairy Award, and among the recipients was supermarket giant Asda. It can seem counter-intuitive to those of us working to promote local, small-scale and natural food production…