Say: ‘I am happy to pay for environmental degradation, chronic illness and labour rights abuses in countries that grow flowers for Western consumers but cannot feed their own people.’
… Say It Without Flowers Venetia Hargreaves-Allen | 1st October 2003 News Cut Flowers Flower Miles Pesticides Slave Labour … labour rights abuses in countries that grow flowers for Western consumers but cannot feed …
Allotments are good for the soul and enjoying a resurgence in interest, says Tony Baldry, which is why local councils and developers should be required to grow their own
… anyone who seriously wants to grow their own flowers or vegetables looking for allotment … access allotments to grow their own, fruit, flowers and vegetables. Tony Baldry is …
Writing in the Guardian, Joanna Blythman has highlighted the environmental damage caused by intensive growing of oil-seed rape - the distinctive yellow-flowering crop which is now a major source of oil for biofuels.
Rape cultivation causes damage 19th April 2007 News Rape Rape-seed Pollen Pesticides Agriculture Agribusiness Farming Pests And Pesticides Organics Natural World News web pic 2_32.jpg Writing in the …
In August 2006, German chemicals company BASF applied to start GM potato field trials
in Cambridge and Derbyshire as early as next spring. The GM industry is making many
claims about this product, but are these based on the truth? Andy Rees investigates
Battling a fractured back and the vagaries of the weather high in the Pyrenees, is the biodynamic dream of wine writer turned grower Monty Waldin about to turn sour?
… yarrow, chamomile, dandelion and valerian flowers, whole stinging nettles and oak bark. …
With vast areas decimated by industrial farming, the salad days are over for mass-produced olive oil. Laura Sevier looks at the effect its rise in popularity has had on the European landscape, and at some more sustainable brands.
… species and a rich ground flora of herbs, flowers and grasses, all part of a mosaic of …
What could be more cheerful than this ubiquitous breakfast fruit? But if you’re not buying them Fairtrade and organic, argues Ed Hamer, then you’re buying into a modern agricultural scandal
… world. Organic by-products include shoots, flowers, crown and leaves, as well as rejected …
Considering its estimated 25,000-plus uses – for producing food, fuel, medicine, paper, plastics and even dynamite – the most wasteful thing you could probably do with hemp is smoke it. Jake Bowers describes hemp’s potential to transform agriculture and the plant’s demonisation by huge and competing industrial interests
… fuel Cell Fluid: Abrasive fluids THC: (from Flowers and Leaves of medical hemp only - THC …