Artwork by: Hannah Grace At the start of lockdown, as supermarket shelves were cleared of flour, people who might not otherwise have thought to seek out a local bakery –…
read moreBy Dora Taylor No Diggity Gardens No Diggity Gardens is a no-dig, regenerative growing project in Walsall, near Birmingham. When the pandemic emerged at the start of the year, Neville…
read moreImage: Hannah Grace As lockdown came into effect, and supermarkets struggled to restock their fruit and vegetable aisles, the idea of “growing your own” took on a new significance. In…
read moreBy Dora Taylor Edge and Son Edge and Son butcher and private abattoir on the Wirral Peninsula specialise in grass-fed, rare and native breeds, and have won multiple awards for…
read moreBy Olivia Oldham Island Fish Shetland John Martin Tulloch, founder and director of Island Fish Shetland, has lived in Shetland all his life. In a life spent on the islands,…
read moreBy Dora Taylor The Courtyard Dairy The British cheese industry was in deep crisis in March. As the Covid-19 lock-down closed restaurants and eliminated tourism, demand for artisanal cheese disappeared.…
read moreAmerican poet and farmer Gary Snyder writes of the interconnectedness and interdependence of the food chain. He says, “To acknowledge that each of us at the table will eventually be…
read moreIf there’s one thing the pandemic has exposed, it’s a food system failing to serve its most basic purpose: to nourish all citizens of our society. Who Feeds Us? is…
read moreBy Olivia Oldham Image credit: Ursula Myrie In a world turned upside-down by the ravages of the Coronavirus pandemic and its consequences, people across the country of all different ages,…
read moreBy Olivia Oldham Image credit: Bushwood Bees East London couple, Salma and Khalil Attan, never expected to become beekeepers. So when Khalil came home from work one evening over ten…
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