9 simple steps to safe mushroom picking. Follow these and enjoy the gastronomic delights of wild mushrooms without poisoning yourself.
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The welfare of chickens has received long overdue attention this year. Most prominent has been Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Chicken Out! campaign, which may not have succeeded in changing Tesco’s welfare policy (for now) but has evidently shifted some demand from conventional to the higher welfare Freedom Food, free range and organic chicken.
Rising demand, rising prices
Earlier this [...]
An essential field guide for anyone who wants to know about arable crops: their identification, cultivation, history and uses.
Less well known than ceps or morels, St George’s are amongst the finest wild mushrooms, with a firm texture, appealing mealy smell and distinctive flavour.
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The Rising Price of Milk
Two weeks ago, Tesco was widely praised in the media for announcing two initiatives: To increase the price UK dairy farmers receive for milk, while not raising the price of standard milk to [...]
To decode your food, use The Tracing Paper’s Food Tracer – a searchable list of all UK identification codes.
What are those oval codes?
If you buy meat – or fish, milk, cheese or any food produced from or by an animal – in the European Union, you should find an oval symbol like this somewhere on [...]
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