This is the garden of GREEN – Gardens for Research and Education. And, under guidance of Matt Adams (who ran the Good Gardeners' Association from 2000 to 2011) it has spent eight years tracking 23 minerals (calcium lead, selenium etc) in soil cultivated in different ways from …
Environmental Issues
Welcome to the Food Systems Academy
It is very easy for any of us to get stuck in our own little area of interest - no matter how important a one it may be. I am glad to say that I am regularly dragged out of mine by my good friend Geoff Tansey who, as long as I have known him, has worked in the much wider world of …
Poinsettias – they can kill…
A few months ago we received the following email from Donna in the US. At the time there were not many poinsettias around so we did not think it would get the attention it deserved. But now, as each Christmas, shops are piled high with poinsettias of every shape and colour – and …
Awards, more awards – and Foodcycle!
I am spending this weekend finalising the winners for the Freefrom From Eating Out Awards which will be presented by Antony WT on the 18th November - eek - only ten days away.... So I shall not breathe a word more about them – except to say that even in year 1 we have managed to …
Fine design…
I do like clever design - even better when it is not only clever but attractive. So I was entranced by Lizi's cereals new take-away-and-make-on-the-hoof cereal portions. The cereals come in small sachets, complete with folding plastic spoon. You push them open, unfold the …