One of my favourite TV programmes recently has been Jimmy Dohertys Farming Heroes. You don't get many TV programmes 'bigging up' farmers. I really liked the positive approach of the programmes. Farmers in this country seem to get a rough deal and it seems from what you hear that nothing positive ever happens for farmers. Each programme highlights particular farms doing things ...
I don't often get stuff that is this local. I received an email about it while ago and was hoping to go and visit the shop as it is so local. But due to a total lack of time I haven't managed to yet. It is also an Ecover refill station which is something I would like to try out.
Something else I saw recently ...
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 ...