We generally buy free range or organic chicken already. If you don't look at Hughs campaign to find out why you should.
You may have seen a trailer for The Big Food Fight. I was looking forward to an amusing documentary with the three celebrity chefs scrapping but it is a collection of programmes about food and where it comes from. I haven't watched ...
Apparently we waste up to a third of all food bought in the country. This campaign gives ideas ideas on how to reduce this waste. It has recipes, meal planners and tips on understand sell by and sell by dates. I have to admit we do waste food in our house hopefully it's not a third of a ...
Dorset foodweek is coming up there a lots of events going on around Dorset including tastings, cookery workshops and markets. It's not often I get to hear about something that is so local to me so this is really good. We will be going going to Penn Hill farmers market which is where I found out ...
Organic Fortnight is between the 2nd and 17th of September and is organised by the Soil Association. There are lots of events going on around the country but none it seems, in my neck of the woods. The closest is in Bridport which thinking about about we might be able to get to as we are on our hols then and we ...
I haven't added anything to this blog for a while and I noticed that Chas Griffin added a comment to my post about Scenes from a Smallholding. I was slightly confused at the 'no relation to Ali' part as my wife is called Ali but it's cool having a celebrity comment. It also good to ...
My lovely wife to be gave this book to me for Christmas. It’s very funny – the writing style is a bit like Bill Bryson. It does make you want to do what Chas and his family did but at the moment I am going to stick with my back garden – try and actually grow something in it this year!
I think ...