Reading Time: 8 minutes Carbon footprint calculators have been on my radar for a long time now, and lately ‘Net Zero’ has crept into the frame. Having followed green-living news out of interest, it’s inevitable; I could hardly have missed either of these terms. I’ve tried plugging my life details into a few carbon footprint calculators, out of curiosity, […]
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Artisan Food: Is It Better For Us and the Planet?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Just to the south of where I live is a landscape that has terroir: multiple distinct landscapes producing vegetables, cider and beer. It’s a great place to source artisan food. This is a continuation of a journey around the English west midlands where I live. I started in the hills in the north, moved round […]
Cow and Corn: Ancient Food and Climate Change
Reading Time: 2 minutes Cow and corn: a vital food producing, soil-saving combination over large parts of the region where I live. And indeed, all over the world. We’ve come down from the hill to plains. This is a story of ancient food that lives under the ground; of poop and soil. What can we learn from Saxon peasants, […]
Imaginary Homestead: Can We Grow What We Eat?
Reading Time: 9 minutes Can we grow what we eat? Or, more importantly, can we grow what we think we should eat? What should we eat? Should we eat just some meat? No meat – go vegan? Is dairy bad? Uh oh, does that mean cheese is out then? These are the questions that I think many people are […]
Red Rock Farm: Food From the Hills
Reading Time: 3 minutes The image above isn’t from Red Rock Farm, but I’ve been talking about food from the hills. I’ve been on a journey around the English West Midlands, where I live, thinking about food that saves the planet. I started in Shropshire, and now I’ve moved round to north Worcestershire, where food and farming culture is […]
Animal-based or Plant-based Food and Sustainable Diet
Reading Time: 2 minutes The hot topic, at the moment, for living a green and zero waste lifestyle revolves around animal-based or plant-based food and sustainable diet. All the focus is on where you are on the meat-eating or plant-eating spectrum, wherever you look. Perhaps you’re reading this because you want to know what to eat. Eat meat/don’t eat […]