Hugh and Pippa Stables run Wandering Ewe Dairy in North Somerset. They produce a hard, unpasteurised, ewes’ milk cheese from their own flock of sheep. 2021 was their third year of commercial cheese production. This is the tenth of 12 monthly blogs, which are intended to give a flavour of the year.
It is high summer […]
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What? Aren’t honeybees in decline and under threat? Well, the answer is: Yes and no:
As things stand, globally, Apis mellifera is probably the only bee species whose colony numbers are NOT in decline. Apis mellifera is the honeybee we know in Europe as ‘our honeybee’ and these bees are the ‘work horse’ (can bees be […]
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Hugh and Pippa Stables run Wandering Ewe Dairy in North Somerset. They produce a hard, unpasteurised, ewes’ milk cheese from their own flock of sheep. 2021 was their third year of commercial cheese production. This is the ninth of 12 monthly blogs, which are intended to give a flavour of the year.
We are reaching a […]
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UK civil society urges MPs to understand the implications of deregulation and revise the bill to
ensure the interests of farmers, businesses and citizens are protected32 groups and individuals representing a broad range of food, farming, animal welfare, human health, environmental, academic, ethical and spiritual interests make the following statement: “On Wednesday, 15 June, the bill to deregulate most genetic engineering technologies in farming and food will have its second reading in the House of Commons. This bill represents a […]
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On the 21st of June, we celebrate the longest day of the year here in the United Kingdom. Known as the summer solstice—or by its Celtic or pagan names Litha and Alban Hefin—this day represents midsummer and has been celebrated on the British Isles since at least the Neolithic era.[1] The summer solstice represented […]
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Many in the Slow Food community are likely familiar with the term food desert, used to describe an area that has limited access to fresh, healthy and affordable food. This is an issue in the UK, where more than one million people and one in ten low-income communities are part of a food desert.[1] […]
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Wandering Ewe Dairy – May
Hugh and Pippa Stables run Wandering Ewe Dairy in North Somerset. They produce a hard, unpasteurised, ewes’ milk cheese from their own flock of sheep. 2021 was their third year of commercial cheese production. This is the eighth of 12 monthly blogs, which are intended to give a flavour of the […]
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Hugh and Pippa Stables run Wandering Ewe Dairy in North Somerset. They produce a hard, unpasteurised, ewes’ milk cheese from their own flock of sheep. 2021 was their third year of commercial cheese production. This is the seventh of 12 monthly blogs, which are intended to give a flavour of the year.
Lambing marks the start […]
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Have you heard of salsify? Until a few years ago, I thought it was probably a herb and had paid it no attention. These days it is on our list of favourite vegetables. I would go as far as to say that I will grow salsify instead of carrots in future.
According to my go-to vegetable […]
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How industrial agriculture helps Putin’s war
‘The U.S. Subsidy That Empowers Putin’ – this headline of an article by George W. Bush’s former speech writer David Frum in The Atlantic[1] certainly caught my attention. “For decades, the U.S. government has, at great expense, encouraged farmers to grow more corn so that it can be turned […]
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