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Organic Trade Board launches new consumer campaign - Organic, naturally different

14 May 2012

After a successful year for Why I Love Organic, the organic industry today announced their Year 2 plans which will continue to increase awareness of the benefits of organic food and farming and grow the current rate of organic sales.

Hi Peak calls for more organic support from Government

08 May 2012

British politicians should follow the example of their European counterparts and talk-up the health, environmental and animal welfare benefits of organic food if organics in the UK is not to fall further behind the rest of Europe.

Laverstoke Park seek experienced butcher with retail experience

04 May 2012

Laverstoke Park is an organic/biodynamic farm based in North Hampshire. We specialize in producing a wide range of high quality produce “from the field to the fork”.

Graig Producers defending co-operatives

01 May 2012

Graig Producers an organic livestock marketing Co-operative have appeared in today's Guardian defending their right to operate as a co-operative against increasing pressure from the meat trade.

Rumen fluke - information

30 April 2012

The Producer Support team have been updated by Sara Ogborne one of our Certification Officer that a licensee's cattle in Somerset have be diagnosed with a case of rumen fluke. Sara has been researching this to help the licencee and has passed us the...

Low carbon farming event - Practical measures to reduce farm emissions

25 April 2012

The 2012 programme of low carbon farming events took off with a one day event held in Sydling, near Dorchester. A well attended day, packed with interesting talks and a great farm tour of Sydling Brook Estate.

Horticulture apprentice at Abbey Home Farm, Cirencester

24 April 2012

Abbey Home Farm is looking for a committed and enthusiastic person to apprentice in our vegetable garden. The apprentice would join a friendly and efficient team, at this award-winning busy mixed organic farm, with a ten acre vegetable garden that p...

The Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation supports new farming initiative

23 April 2012

The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation (PCF) today announced initial funding of £200,000 for a pioneering new project to help British farmers improve their productivity in an environmentally responsible way.

Defra Notification of Trade Visit possibility - Japan and South Korea

19 April 2012

We have just received notification from Defra that the European Commissioner will be visiting Japan and South Korea in October. Full details are included below:
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Latest blogs

The goslings and a shepherd's hut...

Emma Heseltine: This week we get the goslings. They come up as day old chicks and we raise them for the Christmas market. I had one last year and it was a rare treat indeed. There is another farm locally who is getting some too so they go meet our man in Newcastle and then we pop over to get them from the farm. We have ordered 40, that’s the limit we can sensibly house. They are very free range and have the run of the farm on a day time, but like the chickens they need to be locked up on a night to stop our four legged friends running off with a goose-shaped snack or two.

09 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Recommended by 0

Urgent: do you love decent meat?

Lynda Brown: Like most people, I'm passionate about supporting smaller family farms: they're the living backbone of our landscape, rural life and food culture. If only, then, it were as simple as supporting them with your purse power. But it isn't. Tuesday's online Guardian ran with a story about Vion (no, I'd never heard of them, either) that illustrates the sort of stuff that goes on behind the scenes that we generally never hear about, but which could affect the future of small farmers much more than you think.

03 May 2012 | 0 Comments | Recommended by 2

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