Today Michael Gove has announced the most radical, and much to be welcomed, shift in the UK’s position on neonicotinoids since Buglife first wrote to Defra ministers in 2008 raising concerns about risks to wild bees and aquatic life.
Evidence this year from Canada put harmful impacts, from the persistent contamination of the countryside with dust […]
Week three of my #eatlocal challenge is now complete. I have now hobbled over the half way mark of my month supporting #menuforchange and am limping into the finishing stretch. You can learn more about this foolhardy endeavour source all my meals within 50 miles by reading my post from week one.
Last week […]
After the missed agreement on glyphosate renewal on October 25 and the new proposal by the European Commission to reduce the period of the renewal from 10 to 5 years, Member States have voted today: no agreement was reached.
The European Commission has announced it will submit the same proposal to the Appeal Committee (a higher-level meeting […]
I am now two weeks in to my #50milemeal month, consuming food sourced/produced within 31 miles, as part of Slow food’s #menuforchange. Last week I was butter making, bread baking and soliciting sea salt from strangers. You can read about my fledgling efforts in in My #eatlocal challenge: week 1. This week the novelty […]
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As part of Slow Food’s #menuforchange campaign I’m taking part in the #50MileMeal challenge this October, only I’m going one further by sourcing all of my food within 50 miles, rather than just one meal a week. This project was something that I’d actually been thinking about for some time because despite my love of […]
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For me October sits in the Autumn season where the leaves change their coats from green to gorgeous shimmering reds, browns and oranges. Our food markets and allotments are abundant with giant fleshy orange pumpkins and other wonderfully shaped squashes and crowns. It is also the height of the wild mushroom season with ceps, the […]
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This year, we’re joining the global Slow Food network in the #menuforchange campaign with a very special challenge of #50MileMeal that’ll celebrate the food on our doorstep. And address a vital topic.
The food system is one of the leading sources of greenhouse gas emissions, while local agriculture, biodiversity and landscape are often some of the […]
In 2005 my partner gave me Carl Honore’s book In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed (his Ted talk is here) To this day, I confess, I’ve never found time to actually finish it, but, I love the insights I gained and recognise the value of the […]
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The first oysters fresh off the boat are quite frankly irresistible, serve naked with a raspberry vinegar for a sharp salty yumminessNow is the time to celebrate our waters, it’s late summer, early autumn and now is the time to head to the North Norfolk coast where the freshest oysters nestle in their saltmarshes beds and where there is slight salty tang in the air that wafts on the crisp sea breeze. The perfect place to grab […]
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We can’t believe it’s August already; summer seems to be flying by. Our minds are full of up-and-coming holidays, ice-cream and picnics, fish and chips on the beach and freshly baked cakes served with tea in gorgeous English china cups. Farmers markets and local food growers are bursting with wonderful produce that, quite surprisingly, doesn’t […]
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