Climate Friendly Food

A recent report commissioned by the Food and Climate Research Network and WWF UK looks at the scope to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by 2050.

The study assesses scenarios that ...
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Carbon is undoubtedly the most universal and important global language and now currency. Carbon emissions are an enormous issue that affect every person on the planet, yet the sources of these emissions are highly inequitable.

Those of us in industrialised countries suc ...
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The weekend of January 23rd and 24th saw Climate Friendly Food run its first weekend course in market gardening. The course was a pilot of an AQA Unit Award we are awaiting to be scrutinised by the exam body.

The course was well received as we started by looking at ...
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A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting Graham Harvey for coffee in Bristol. Graham is a journalist, author of several books (the latest called The Carbon Fields), organiser of the "Alternative Oxford Farming Conference" and perhaps most famously agricult ...
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Schumacher College is a highly inspiring place to study and be. Set on the beautiful Dartington Estate near Totnes in south Devon, it places great importance on the quality of its learning environment, food and teachers. Leading thinkers from around the world regularly teach a ...
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I've been away from home for 9 days, having attended the Organic Producer's Conference at Harper Adams in Shropshire. Having left the Isles of Scilly with a cold NE wind, I was quite surprised to learn that we were virtually the only place in the entire country not to have any ...
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Very soon lots of organic farmers and growers will be gathering at Harper Adams college in Shropshire for the annual Organic Producers Conference.

It happens on 7th and 8th January and I will be running a workshop there about Climate Friendly Food, at 17.30 on the 7th. ...
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This week the Soil Association launched their long awaited report, Soil Carbon and organic farming. This is a serious bit of work, running to hundreds of pages and researched extensively.

The findings are striking - for instance if all UK farmland was converted ...
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The culmination of our launch week was a presentation at the Schumacher Lectures, which was held at the Council House, Bristol on Saturday 17th October. The lectures were organised by the New Economics Foundation on behalf of the Schumacher Society and were called “from ...
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I spent an hour talking with Phil Haughton from the Better Food Company about the potential to do a carbon footprint analysis of their growing operation at Chew Magna. A relatively young growing operation, they work on 10 acres supplying a box scheme and their shop in St Wherb ...
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