Beer And Cider

In the last few years the Ecologist has written extensively on the flu – both the garden variety that strikes us on an annual basis and the wider threat of avian influenza, H5N1.

The UK’s organic brewers are calling time on beer corporations, as Rachel Clode discovers

The UK’s organic brewers are calling time on beer corporations, as Rachel Clode discovers

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?

Making the transition from wine writer to viticulturist was a leap of faith for Monty Waldin. What could he expect from his new hilltop vineyard in the Pyrenees?

Antipodean winemakers are still breathing fresh air into the stuffy Old World of wine. Monty Waldin reports

Monty Waldin visits La Ferme de la Sansonnière, one of France’s, if not the world’s, most complex Biodynamic vineyards

Ross Hume Hall explains how bureaucracy and regulations are crushing small farmers in the USA