All Entries Tagged With: "food"
BBC – Radio 4 – Food & Farming Awards 2011
BBC – Radio 4 – Food & Farming Awards 2011 BBC – Radio 4 – Food & Farming Awards 2011. Check out the winners of the 2011 Food & Farming Awards. The winners are all listed here. Can you place each of these winners them in the correct category (below)? Jack and Linda Mills, The [...]
Apples: British to the Core
BBC iPlayer – Apples: British to the Core. Excellent programme well worth a watch. Horticulturalist Chris Beardshaw uncovers the British contribution to the history of our most iconic fruit. He reveals the ‘golden age’, when the passion and dedication of Victorian gardeners gave us more varieties than anywhere else in the world. Chris [...]
Dry weather having devastating effect on crops
Wheat and other crops hit by drought Lack of rain is becoming a real problem in the east of England (25/05/2011). The wheat is not growing. If yields are cut, food prices will be hit. This BBC News video report sums up the situation: BBC News – Dry weather having devastating effect on crops. [Plus [...]
Green Economy | Farming First
New web page worth a visit: Green Economy | Farming First. We need to make the global economy green. Agriculture provides significant opportunities for growth, investment and jobs to help make this happen. Farming First is a coalition of over 100 organisations: The coalition exists to articulate, endorse and promote practical, actionable programmes and activities [...]
Hugh’s Fish Fight
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Organic Farming
Soil Association magazine; 102, Winter 2009 : soil carbon report; wind farm co-op; dairy bull calves; soil fertility; under-sowing legumes
What is land for?
The food, fuel and climate change debate : edited by Michael Winter and Matt Lobley, published by Earthscan; The Rural Economy and Land Use Programme (Relu) at Newcastle University
Landmark
NIAB December 2009 : sustainable growth & food; yellow rust; oilseed rape; artemesia; peas & beans; Green Pig project; onions
Birds Eye cancel contracts
Farmers across Norfolk and Suffolk are affected
Farming and Countryside Education
FACE is a registered charity aiming to educate children and young people about food and farming in a sustainable countryside
