How can we bridge the gap between ‘fast food' living and responsible consumption when mass production and a throw-away mindset still dominate the lifestyles of most people? LAURA BRIGGS has some thoughts...
… | 5th April 2017 Ethical Living Organic Allotment Farming Food Consumer Choices allotment.jpg How can we bridge the gap … footprint. Small-scale farmers, producers and allotment keepers are all trying to push …
With allotment waiting lists more than a decade long in many areas, people without gardens are becoming increasingly creative in their enthusiastic quest to grow their own food. Report by Giovanna Dunmall
… Gardening Green Living Food Grow Vegetables Allotment how_to_gardening_april.jpg With allotment waiting lists more than a decade … after for free and gardeners get a free allotment in return. Apart from reducing food …
It’s resolution time again so start 2012 on an eco-friendly note by cutting out food miles and eating less meat
… gardening has never been cooler. Demand for allotments and grow-your-own kits has soared … could be a savvy financial move. ‘I got an allotment last year and I’m really getting … Even if you don’t have a garden or an allotment, you can grow the following produce …
The Apricot Centre in Essex is a unique project that uses organic horticulture and animal husbandry to heal, inspire and educate children from diverse backgrounds, and kindle love for the natural world, writes Martin Large. Now it's expanding to Devon, to establish a second, much larger biodynamic smallholding near Totnes and Dartington.
… healthy food on a farm, a school garden or an allotment then in the long term, this will …
Is it worse than Mc Donalds? The BLT sandwich is an icon, the ultimate symbol of convenience culture. Tesco alone sells 5 million a year. This is what the £1.80 you pay for your BLT buys...
BLT Sandwich: The Big Lifestyle Trade Off Jon Hughes Pat Thomas | 22nd September 2006 News Food BLT Fast Food Junk Food Pigs Bacon Farming Pesticides Proccessed Food Processed Farming Fast Food Green …
A radical experiment in community supported agriculture is attempting to break farming's reliance on fossil fuels and unsustainable practices. Andrew Wasley met green farmer Ed Hamer for this exclusive extract from The Ecologist Guide To Food.
… creativity" . Another has details on a local allotment scheme and how to get involved. In …
Leaving the EU provides a "once in a lifetime opportunity" for England to change the way its land is managed so that nature, the environment, and society are better off according to a new report by the UK charity People Need Nature which is published to coincide with this week's Oxford Real Farming Conference. KATHRYN HINDESS reports
… took part in food-production, had their own allotments, for example, then they could help …
We can continue to squander our resources and react to food crises as they happen, or we can fundamentally change the way the food systems work, says Carolyn Steel
… their parents. There would be neighbourhood allotments, community farms, perhaps a local … is valued, sitopia already exists. Community allotments, food co-ops, farmers’ markets, …
Scotland's small-scale farmers have welcomed their government's decision to prevent the growing of GM crops, aimed at enhancing the country's 'clean, green status', among a coalition of green NGOs.
… Compassion in World Farming and Scotland's Allotments and Gardens Society. Standing out …
We refer to them as kitchen basics - milk and eggs - but how often do we stop to think about the true cost of their production? Not often enough writes TIM MADDAMS
… who want free laying hens for their garden, allotment or small holding. The various hubs …
The growth of food banks reflects a simple truth: the government does not care about hungry families, writes Rupert Read. To tackle hunger, work must pay a living wage, social security must do its job, and communities must rebuild local food networks.
… such as housing, energy, and water Making allotments more available, especially to the …
How to dissent peacefully from the corruption, waste and destruction of the world? By a mindful disengagement from evil, writes Julian Rose: from fossil fuel energy to propagandist media, from sweatshop clothing to the predatory financial system. Some of the steps we can take are easy, others very difficult - but what ultimately matters is the direction of travel.
… Join a city garden scheme; get onto an allotment plot; become a guerilla gardener; …
The Scottish diet is famous for being the worst in Europe, write Pete Ritchie and Miriam Ross. Yet the country has rich land and sea resources, and exports large quantities of high quality food. By treating food as a common good instead of leaving the market to provide, Scots can start to transform their food future.
… with much more of our food coming from allotments, community gardens and farms in and …
Seeds are essential to our food and our entire lives, writes Rowan Phillimore. So join in celebrating and sharing them at a series of events this month in London, Bristol, Devon, Oxford, Lancaster, Herts - and begin the fightback against corporate domination of seeds and oppressive government regulation.
… seed organically in their gardens, farms and allotments and donating a proportion of that …
Todmorden in Yorkshire's Calder Valley has been transformed by free food growing on its streets, parks and even its rooftops. Julian Dobson tells the inspiring story of Incredible Edible and how the transformational project is going global ....
… and for sharing. Waiting lists for allotments have risen in recent years, and now …
It’s 2008, and feeding ourselves has never been easier. We take for granted a supply of every agricultural commodity on the planet, 365 days a year. Food is cheap. Never in living memory have we spent less on it as a proportion of our total expenditure. Even our poorest citizens can afford the luxury foods of yesteryear, like salmon and chicken.
… patio heaters; in come green gardens, allotments and potagers, well known to promote …
Organic certification used to be carried out by real farmers in wellies, who knew all the tricks and could spot dodgy practice on the land at 100 paces, writes Julian Rose. Today's certifiers arrive in patent leather shoes and get no further than the office - and this is meant to be an improvement?
… is these farms, small holdings, cooperatives, allotments and even 'guerilla gardeners' that …
As the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations enter their last few days, Ellen Brown exposes their real purpose - corporate control of the world's food, health, environment and financial systems. Of all these, the greatest is food ...
… food was grown on dachas (cottage gardens or allotments). Dacha gardens produced over 80% …