River Cottage Spring
Yet another River Cottage series has hit our TV screens, Bit of a curate's egg - good in parts.
My personal opinions on what’s happening in the world at large, especially things that impact on our food. The power of supermarkets, globalisation and the march of science.
Yet another River Cottage series has hit our TV screens, Bit of a curate's egg - good in parts.
Ammonium sulphamate is a safe and effective herbicide which has been withdrawn from sale in the EU thanks to regulations that ignore common sense
I'm still ranting about poultry after Jamie's Fowl Dinners. But should we really blame the supermarkets?
Hugh's TV series is finished but will the effect last? What I think now that it has finished.
Have you ever wondered how much of our food is wasted and who is to blame? Is it our fault or that of the supermarkets that dominate our food supply chain in the UK?
Channel 4 are showing some TV programmes that will open your eyes to the cruelty of battery farming and encourage you to watch.
In the west, growing your own may no longer be a matter of survival for the individual but it could be a matter of survival of our people.
Some thoughts on why people stick and others do not on an allotment and how much time an allotment takes.
Providing some advice and basic vegetable growing knowledge to someone might just help protect your plot in the future.
I could not resist having a moan about insurance. What a scam. In any other field they would be sent to jail.
Thinking back on 30 years of gardening and realising how things have changed in that time.
A new university study shows that food additives cause behaviour problems in children. But we knew this 20 years ago.
Forcast increases in meat prices may not be such a bad thing. Some thoughts on our diet.
Allotment association split over use of land. Should allotments expand at the cost of natural habitat.
Although the floods have destroyed crops a much more serious threat to agriculture and horticulture is the reducing bee population.
The new anti-smoking law is about to come in and I'm not very happy about it. But what is next on the agenda?
The results of the petition to the government are in. I can't say wonderful but they do offer advice to those with threatened allotments.
Exposure to pesticides may increase the risk of Parkinson's disease, experts said.
Smoke free restaurants have made many people happy and now the EU is going to help small cafes and restaurants by removing the burden of keeping the health inspector happy.
We're in a hole and it's getting deeper. But whatever we do somebody will object. It's time to take the medicine.