Growing your own food can go beyond fruit and veg if you have space and the right soil. Read on for Clarissa Dickson Wright and Johnny Scott's guide to grain crops
… or is left whole or cracked for baking. Maize and sweetcorn Zea, or maize, in all its forms is native to the … and fertile warrior. Cultivation In the UK maize will grow south of the Mersey-Humber …
Labour party leader, Jeremy Corbyn - who said he'd never give up his allotment, whatever the outcome of the recent UK elections - knows it and so do the millions of gardeners, growers and allotmenteers who've found a deeper relationship with their own patch of land. HARRIET GRIFFEY discovers the healing power of that relationship as described in a beautifully written new memoir
… in North London for years, where he grows maize, beans and pumpkins and also fruit with …
In the first of his new Ecologist columns on the ups and downs of trying to live a Greener, low-impact lifestyle, writer PAUL MILES debates the eco pros and cons of getting his first dog
… udders and chicken feet, all cooked up with maize, wheat, brewer's yeast and fish oil. …
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.
… transform bare land which has grown wheat and maize using artificial fertilizers for many … transform bare land which has grown wheat and maize using artificial fertilizers for many …
When it comes to oils we are spoilt for choice, with more than 130 million tonnes of oil consumed every year, according to the WWF. But with demand set to increase, what sort of impact is our appetite for oil having on the planet? And which is the green choice?
… are taken into account. Sunflower, wheat, maize, sugar cane and sugar beet also made the …
The Welsh town of Chepstow is the most recent to declare itself 'plastic free'. PAUL MILES reflects on the subsequent media frenzy, the community's unwavering enthusiasm, and their long-term goals
… made from compressed plant material such as maize husks, and offers wooden forks instead …
If you 'deskfast' with sugary, fat-filled cereal bars instead of eating a good breakfast you could be doing untold damage to your body and mind. By Pat Thomas
… and Nutri-Grain bars may contain GM soya or maize derivatives. The Nutri-Grain bar also …
Far from being the healthy drink implied by its sports sponsorships, Diet Coke is a worrying cocktail of neurotoxic and potentially carcinogenic chemicals
… the sugar can sometimes come from GM maize. Ammonia is toxic by all routes of …
A 'harmonic convergence' in the Mayan calendar set off something big for Craig Sams and his Belizean partners. First, Green & Blacks chocolate - and now an even more ambitious project to restore the world's soils using biochar and organic farming systems.
… palm, coffee and subsistence foods such as maize, beans and cereals are competitive with …
Almost since the advent of genetic engineering the food industry, the research establishment and parts of the media have been saying that the public is becoming more accepting of the technology. However, with no credible independent evidence to support this view it remains little more than wishful thinking and as this new survey, conducted by Beyond GM shows, most diners want to see more transparency about what's actually in our food
… however, are GMO oils derived from maize, soya, rapeseed and sometimes …