Following on from our award-winning 2019 series about the UK grains, CEREAL, comes our second in-depth production, Who Feeds Us?, released this coming Sunday, 11 October. The COVID crisis exposed…
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Bread. Once the cornerstone of our diet, bread is now, at best a guilty indulgence or, at worst, something to be completely avoided. How did something so basic, so fundamental,…
read moreIn this special episode, brought to you by Chelsea Green Publishing, we hear from a super inspiring small-scale farmer, Leah Penniman. Leah is a farmer, activist, author and co-founder of…
read moreFirst up this month, farmer, writer and activist, Leah Penniman, of Soul Fire Farm in New York State, shares 3 top tips for farmers who are just starting out. We…
read moreThis month we hear from Jackie Stroud, a Soil Scientist at Rothamsted Research and, renowned in the UK farming community as “The Worm Lady”. She runs a citizen science project…
read moreThis month we have a political focus and still manage to squeeze in some brilliant stores of soils and microbes. Firstly we share some personal stories from a ‘kitchen table…
read more(Alice Bettany of @sacred_seeds harvesting herbs for her CSA herbal medicine box scheme) Welcome to Farmerama! This month, we hear from herb growers and suppliers about the opportunities for growing…
read moreHello and welcome to Farmerama, episode 30! This month we bring you stories from the 9th Annual Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC). The Conference this year was a bit different…
read moreWe have passed the darkest day here in the UK, every new day eeks out a few moments more light. To tide us over this month we have some slightly…
read more(find the transcript for the whole episode below) This month, we dip into the wonderful world of agroforestry: John Tucker, head of Woodland Creation at The Woodland Trust, talks us…
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