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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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 sixth of 12 monthly blogs, which are intended to give a flavour of the year.
Spring always come in […]
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A few days ago, BBC Radio 4 programme “Farming Today” featured an interview with Kees Huizinga, a Dutch farmer who came to the Ukraine some 20 years ago and now operates a 15,000 hectare farm right in the centre of a country that is known as “the breadbasket of Europe”. When farmers there first began […]
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The weather has been warming up recently but of course it’s too early to count on sustained spring weather – we’re still getting frosts, after all. I’m starting to get excited, though, and we do have everything read for April planting. The soft fruit and empty vegetable beds have a thick layer of compost; my […]
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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 fifth of 12 monthly blogs, which are intended to give a flavour of the year.
Whilst producing our flagship […]
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