During the peak of Covid-19 in the UK, the news mainly focussed on farming with headlines about dairy farmers dumping massive quantities of milk, empty supermarket shelves and vegetable crops rotting in fields. While all of these things happened, there are a few areas of British agriculture which thrived and I think they deserve recognition … [Read more…]
I recently wrote a post about how eating sustainably could save the world. It got quite a bit of interest. The problem is though, how do you eat locally and sustainably? It’s all very well people like me saying this is the way forward but some people, quite rightly, are unsure of how to even … [Read more…]
When we talk about the “death of the high street”, we often point the finger at the big online brands that dominate our choices as consumers. Grocery shopping, however, remains one of the few remaining bastions of physical retail, but within that comes another battle — between local traders and the big supermarkets. It’s undoubtedly … [Read more…]
