A selection of articles about local food producers, retailers, chefs and those supporting the local food and farming industry.
How cutting back on meat could help save the planet and our rural communities A growing number of scientists, journalists and policy-makers are speaking out about the increasing environmental damage being done by the livestock industry and the urgent need Read more »
‘I was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, in 1971, but I don’t really feel like I’m from anywhere in England. My father was in the Royal Air Force so we bounced from RAF base to RAF base throughout my childhood. I Read more »
Landlord, Chef and Proprietor of the Shave Cross Inn, Joe Baron is a welcome addition to the echelon of hardworking individuals elevating Dorset’s oldest and celebrated pubs. With a menu that changes daily and a tapas selection to choose from, Read more »
It is increasingly clear that the industrialisation and intensification of farming in the UK have caused huge damage to our wildlife, soils and rivers. A growing number of scientists, anglers, and farmers are now speaking out about the rapid impoverishment Read more »
There is a buzz of activity in the kitchen at Tierra restaurant in Lyme Regis. It is the morning of a new seasonal menu change and Mark Evans, owner of the vegetarian restaurant, along with his sous chef, Channing are Read more »
Kingston Black, Ellis Bitter, Tremletts Bitter, Browns, Somerset Redstreak and Major; those in the know will recognise these as varieties of cider apple trees. All can be found in Zoë Marshall’s 10 acre orchard in Netherhay, which she has planted Read more »
Ele Saltmarsh (pronounced Ellie) doesn’t mind being the youngest member of the coordination group of Food Sovereignty UK, or being the international campaign’s manager and heading up the youth group of the newly formed English branch of La Via Read more »
‘It’s going to be like trying to get a condom on a whale!’ Foodie is cheerily surveying the metallic ribcage of a ten metre long polytunnel frame. It has been reassembled after he bundled off his unsuspecting mum to help Read more »
The British, regrettably, have an awkward relationship with Spanish charcuterie. We demonstrate a gulf of misunderstanding that matches that of our most notorious Torquay hotelier to his eager Spanish waiter, a relationship that played out on our screens at the Read more »
It has been some ten years since my move to Dorset from London and not a day goes by when I don’t count my foodie blessings. In deciding where to go my arm hovered over the map of west Dorset Read more »