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Sarah Green’s Organics is a family run organic horticultural enterprise in Tillingham, Essex. Sarah’s the third generation of Greens to have farmed in Tillingham, and…
Sarah Green’s Organics: a small farm success story
“A farm full of good food and passionate people”: being a Better Food Trader means working closely with your suppliers and developing great relationships, so we…
Local Greens visits Ripple Farm
New routes to better markets for farmers and growers Whilst Brexit is forcing a rethink of a crucial portion of most UK farm incomes –…
New routes to better markets
The Kindling Trust have compiled a handy a run down of tools, examples and organisations that could become the foundations for a thriving sustainable food…
Tips for building a new food system
One of the main criticisms of organic farming is that it’s not as productive and therefore requires more land than conventionally grown produce. The farmers…
Conventional farming: a game of diminishing returns?
Two of the Better Food Traders, Forty Hall Farm and Crop Drop got together recently to do crop planning for the new year. Read about…
London veg box schemes working together
Eating to protect the planet is more complex than any one diet can take into account. We’ll need 70 per cent more food by 2050…
Chewing the facts on sustainable diets
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A short documentary film about the staff and volunteers at the Windmill Community Gardens, in Margate, England.
Soil, Sheds, And Rows Of Veg
What’s the place for meat and dairy in a better food system? As part of her Travels Round the Food Zones blog, Julie Brown starts…