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In the Highlands of Scotland, not far from the mountain resort town of Aviemore, there is a bright yellow horsebox, decorated with colourful flags. That horsebox is the home of Reviving Food, a mobile micro-bakery, where founder and owner Rosie Gray bakes and sells sourdough bread and pastries to feed the small, rural community of Kincraig.
Not the Farmer’s Wife is our new column launching today by our storytelling editor and & projects manager, Olivia Oldham. “It was mid-September, and the last of the summer sun was slowly burning off the morning mist rising from rivers and fields between Reading and Bristol. I was on my way to Somerset, to visit Field Bakery, Bristol-based baker Rosy Benson’s new enterprise.”
As part of Farmerama Radio’s new series, Who Feeds Us? Dora Taylor spoke to two cheesemakers about their experiences.
Now that he’s back at work in the kitchen, we asked Friskney-Bryer, Head Chef at Fitzroy, in Fowey, to reflect on his months in the garden and what it has been like going back to work.
Henrietta Inman, pastry chef, author, cookery teacher and edible flower grower, and now wholegrain baker & cook at Wakelyns, shared this beautiful recipe for a harvest loaf cake. Henrietta is building a bakery at Wakelyns to bring YQ&Q sourdough & other food made with the farm’s produce to their local community.
Abi Aspen Glencross, Head of Grains at Duchess Farms, told us about her life and work with heritage grain.
The Ag Bill is a proposed law currently making its way through Parliament & which will shape the future of farming policy.
New Dawn Traders founder Alexandra Geldenhuys spoke with us about the importance of understanding & acknowledging the consequences of our history in the way we trade now.
Lulu Cox of Flourish Produce also generously shared two delicious for our Farmhouse Cookery Journal: Broad Beans & Berkswell and Confit Wet Garlic & Goats Curd on Toast
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Earlier this year, we wrote about the derogation of neonicotinoid thiamethoxam, an EU-banned pesticide, for the sugar beet industry in England. The government cancelled the derogation last week. Here we have Catherine Chong, our co-founder, a climate economist and global sustainability advisor, to help us understand what’s at play and find out more about what Neonicotinoids can do to our food, heath and ecosystems.