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Future Proofing Scotland's Farming

27 March 2012

Soil Association Scotland’s successful Climate Change Programme closed at the end of September.

Low carbon arable production - FREE event, Wiltshire

05 August 2011

An afternoon seminar session will be held in Yatesbury, Wiltshire on Friday 23 September, looking into low carbon farming practices in relation to arable production. Expert speakers will talk about the importance of soil management to reduce nitrous...

Welsh Government announces commitment to ‘ensuring a sustainable organic sector in Wales’

28 July 2011

The Soil Association welcomes this week’s announcement by Alun Davies, Wales Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and European programmes, that post 2013/4 there will be a specific organic maintenance fund within Glastir and that the det...

Winners of the 2011 Organic Food Awards announced

28 July 2011

The winners of the 2011 Organic Food Awards were announced at the Start Festival, Clarence House, on Wednesday 27 July, part of the national ‘Start’ initiative, established by The Prince's Charities Foundation to promote and celebrate sustainable li...

Delicious recipes to celebrate Organic September

18 July 2011

To celebrate Organic September and inspire people to cook with seasonal organic ingredients the Soil Association has collected a mouth-watering array of recipes from renowned chefs and food writers including Allegra McEvedy , Darina Allen , Hugh Fea...

Low Carbon Farming project website LIVE!

18 July 2011

The website pages for the new Low Carbon Farming project are now live. The pages contain a number of information sheets about climate change and low carbon farming as well as details about the project and our upcoming activities and events. The webs...

Scottish Organic Forum Update

08 July 2011

Organic farming and food has a massive role to play in Scotland’s economy with annual Scottish organic sales now in excess of £55 million. At a time when sales recovery is well underway and demand for organic produce in the UK and EU showing excelle...

Future Proofing Scotland’s Farming - new project to improve profits and sustainability

24 June 2011

A new £200,000 three year project to improve sustainability and profitability in Scottish agriculture was launched at the Royal Highland Show today [Friday 24 June] by Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment.

Richmond children get low-cost healthy school dinners

20 June 2011

Children in 29 schools across the borough of Richmond will benefit from fresh and healthy school dinners thanks to a new catering contract, which will also see the price of meals reduced by up to 40 pence each.

Do you know your farm's footprint? Get involved in our Low Carbon project

13 June 2011

The Low Carbon Farming project is working to establish a benchmarking facility to aid farmers and growers in monitoring and reducing on-farm emissions.

The Dark Side of Farming: help stop the introduction of a huge pig factory in Derbyshire

13 June 2011

FREE short film screening and debate, open to the public 23 June 2011, 7-9pm Burton on Trent Town Hall, DE14 2EB

Helen Browning's speech to the WI on factory farming

09 June 2011

Helen Browning addressed the Women's Institute AGM on 8 June as they debated the motion: 'This meeting abhors the practice of factory farming particularly large animals such as pigs and cows, and urges HM government to ensure planning permission is ...

UK’s greenest university working to Food for Life Catering Mark standards

08 June 2011

Nottingham Trent University, one of just seven universities nationwide to score points for working towards the Soil Association's Food for Life Catering Mark, takes the top spot this year in The People & Planet Green League 2011 released today 8 Ju...

We need farming systems which protect our biodiversity, wildlife sites not enough

06 June 2011

Dr Isobel Tomlinson, Soil Association policy and campaigns officer, commenting ahead of the expected publication of the Natural Environment White Paper tomorrow:

GOTS welcomes USDA ruling

25 May 2011

The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) has welcomed a new policy memorandum from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in which it explicitly confirms that textile products that are produced in accordance with the GOTS standard may ...

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