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Glenlivet Woodland Management and Woodfuel Production Workshop - Tuesday 27th March 2012

28 February 2012

Forestry Commission Scotland, The Cairngorms National Park Authority, Aberdeenshire Council, Scottish Enterprise and The Crown Estate invite you to attend a one-day workshop on the 27th March 2012 to be held at Tomintoul. The workshop will provide a...

Plymouth City Council’s catering service achieves gold Catering Mark

22 February 2012

We are delighted to announce that Plymouth City Council’s catering service has achieved the prestigious gold Catering Mark for all of the city's school meals. Plymouth is the only local authority in-house caterer in England currently serving gold me...

Georgina Thomas is speaking at Printwear & Promotion Live 2012 - 26-28 February

22 February 2012

Printwear & Promotion Live 2012 features an action packed, free seminar programme and for the first time will be running daily at noon, an industry-leading keynote seminar presented by Continental Clothing, Fujifilm Sericol and The Soil Association....

Plymouth gets gold

21 February 2012

Plymouth City Council’s catering service has achieved the prestigious Food for Life Gold Catering Mark for all of the city's school meals [1]. Plymouth is the only local authority in-house caterer in England currently serving gold menus to all of it...

Cumbria Organics Annual General Meeting Wednesday 7th March

21 February 2012

Cumbria Organics AGM is on 7th March 2012 at the Westmorland Agricultural Society Ltd, Land Farm, Crooklands, Milnthorpe LA7 7NH. It will start at 6.30 with a short business meeting for Cumbria Organic members. This will be followed at 7.00 by a fre...

TILMAN-ORG: Reduced tillage and green manures on organic farms

21 February 2012

The Nafferton Ecological Farming Group (NEFG) and the Organic Research Centre (ORC) are collaborating with partners in 10 European countries on this new research project. The overall goals of the project Reduced tillage and green manures for sustain...

New EU-US organics partnership announced

17 February 2012

We welcomed the news yesterday that the US Department of Agriculture and the EU have reached an agreement for the mutual recognition of the National Organic Program (NOP) and the EU organic regulations, effective from 1 June this year.

Innovation Appeal

16 February 2012

How governments invest in agricultural research and innovation plays a pivotal part in shaping what types of food we produce and consume. Given the challenges our global food system is likely to face in the coming century, it’s crucial that we ensur...

Project update: The review of the National Occupational Standards for Amenity and Production Horticulture

14 February 2012

Lantra, the Sector Skills Council for the Land-based and Environmental Sector, commenced a review in June 2011 of the current National Occupational Standards (NOS) for both Amenity and Production Horticulture. National Occupational Standards define ...

Pig development could breach local residents’ human rights

10 February 2012

An industrial scale indoor pig unit, holding 25,000 pigs, which developers are proposing to build less than 150 metres from a large women’s prison, and within 75 metres of houses, poses serious risks to the health of residents, prison officers and p...
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