Tea firm Twinings published a list of the Indian plantations it buys from this week, citing the need for transparency to improve conditions in an industry experts say is rife with abuse. India’s tea industry, the world’s second largest, employs 3.5 million workers and studies have found many live in appalling conditions, below the poverty line.

 

Country wines have a long and noble history in the UK, with dandelion, blackberry, and elderberry often being the favourites (and of course elderflower fizz).  It is possible to make wine from almost any fruit or vegetable, although the results can have varying degrees of success.

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The island landscapes of Skye, Raasay and Harris are the backdrop to Scotland’s newest whisky adventure, the Hebridean Whisky Trail. The new trail has been designed with intrepid whisky wanderers in mind, connecting four neighbouring distilleries – Isle of Raasay Distillery, Torabhaig Distillery, Talisker Distillery and the Isle of Harris Distillery – through one spectacular 115-mile route.

 

The Ethicurean Restaurant is founded on ‘a sense of place’. This is the idea of having a connection with the native land, the community who grow seasonal food upon it, preparations with harmonious flavours, and the understanding of its history. If you've subscribed to the print magazine or have signed up to our mailing list, you're entered automatically for a chance to win the prize of dinner for two, two nights B&B and £100 to spend. Please share the link and details with your family, friends and network and encourage them to sign up – it will help us build our mailing list and spread the word about Locavore.

 

 Demeter UK & BDA Certification are looking for a bright, energetic and ambitious person, who shares our passion for biodynamic and organic food and farming to take up the challenge to drive us forwards, and lead a small dedicated team of certification professionals to successfully grow the business post-Brexit.
 

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via Deutsche Welle

Farmer-herder conflicts on the rise in Africa
via IPS

Breakfast with a dose of Roundup?: weed killer in $289 million cancer verdict
found in oat cereal and granola bars
via EWG

I wanted a dog. I bake bread instead.
via New York Times

The decline and fall of Diet Coke and the power generation that loved it
via The New Yorker

Co-op partners with The Real Junk Food Project to cut food waste
via edie

Native's Ivan Tisdall-Downes: "We've always been ‘zero-waste’,
we just didn’t shout about it"
via Big Hospitality

The role of technology in addressing the food waste epidemic
via Sustainable Food Trust

Hawaii was once a local milk mecca.
On Oahu, there’s just one dairy left
via New Food Economy

Is spelt better for you than wheat?
Meet the man championing this British-grown ancient grain
via Daily Telegraph

Farm workers need better protection in new Agriculture Bill
via Sustain

Climate change threatens Midwest's wild rice, a staple for Native Americans
via The Salt - NPR

Dirty feed, done dirt cheap: are consumers who shell out for organic meat
eating a bunch of bull?
via Big Hospitality

How scientists are hijacking plant skeletons to make lab-grown steaks
via New Food Economy