To highlight their cause, campaigners ate organic chips in Norwich city centre before delivering a trailer-load of organic, blight-resistant potatoes to the laboratory. The campaigners claim £1.7m of public money has been spent to find a GM …
Why there’s more to keeping chickens than getting fresh laid eggs
Then we wanted them organic, without any of those nasty chemicals involved. Now we want our eggs one stage more wholesome – fresh from the garden and our very own brood of hand-reared chickens. Keeping chickens has grown in popularity over the last few …
Forestry fallout could scupper badger cull
Stephen Carr runs an 800ha (1950-acre) sheep, arable and beef farm on the South Downs near Eastbourne in partnership with his wife, Fizz. A third of the acreage is in conversion to organic status. Do you think the Welsh cull will ever happen? …
British farmers forced to pay the cost of supermarket price wars
Patrick Holden, former head of the Soil Association, is a dairy farmer in Lampeter, west Wales. For 20 years he farmed organic carrots for supermarkets, but gave up in 2007, frustrated at unreasonable demands that continually pushed up his overheads. …
Business booming for Welsh milk group
The firm’s aim is to develop and encourage the processing of Welsh organic milk in Wales, instead of seeing it taken out of Wales where it can lose its identity and value. “We are looking for producers of high quality milk who share Calon Wen’s vision …
Welsh residents could switch to biomass boilers
According to Andrew Boroughs, owner of Welshpool-based Organic Energy, the sales of wood pellet burners has increased by 20% in Q1 2011 alone. ‘Over the course of the past year, every one of the six biggest energy providers in the UK rained its process …
CAT wins award for Wales Institute for Sustainable Education building
The facility comprises seminar rooms and workshops, offices, common rooms and reception sections, a research laboratory, uniquely designed organic gardens in addition to a restaurant and bar which encourages the significance of sustainable land use, …
Chance for Vale Schools to win gardening goodies, care of Rachel’s organic …
RACHEL’S, Wales’ premium organic dairy producer, has teamed up with the Penarth Times and Barry & District News to offer five schools the chance to win gardening goodies, including growing boxes, plants and tools. As part of its ongoing work with the …
Carrots and oats growing on trees? Survey reveals widespread ignorance about …
To combat the problem the trust has today launched MyFarm, a website offering 10000 people the chance to learn about food production by making key decisions month by month on one of the charitys organic farms. This is all about reconnecting people with …
Welsh are going green as fuel bills rise 15%
Green energy expert Andrew Boroughs, who runs Organic Energy in Welshpool, says with the average annual gas and electricity bill estimated to reach £1300 in 2011, consumers are looking to biomass boilers and solar thermal systems to heat their homes.
