What to do in your organic veg patch in April
Do you grow organically? Here is a great resource to help you grow great fruit and veg at home from our friends at…
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Grow You Own Week: Week 13 of BigBarn’s Food & Drink weeks
If you’ve been thinking about growing your own this year, then now is the perfect time to get started. Getting our hands dirty in…
Read MoreSmallholders’ Handbook part 1
Ever thought about the Good Life and living off the land? The spiritual well being of growing and selling food to local people? At BigBarn…
Read MoreBritish Pie Week: Week 10 of BigBarn’s food and drink weeks
IT’S TIME FOR THE PIES TO SHINE! In Britain we just love them! Whether it’s filled with meats, vegetables or something sweet, we just…
Read MoreKimchi Fermented Vegetables (Local Food Business Idea 1)
BigBarn is all about building Local Food Communities that are self sufficient, caring and inclusive. For more on this please read our
Read MoreIt’s Pancake Week
Shrove Tuesday is a few weeks later this year than last and while their are a lot of religious connotations for a significant portion…
Read MoreThe Plastics Problem – One Year On
Last year, we wrote that we’d “given up take-away coffee since I realised that the cups can’t be recycled, and now that we…
Read MoreHelp us make the next generation aware of food growing, cooking and nutrition!
We know that 20% (and rising) of the NHS budget is spent on food related illnesses such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease. This…
Read MoreSave Money, buy good beer, support your local brewery and save the environment!
Yes this can be done and all keen beer drinkers who care about the environment should get involved. Environment because food miles, aluminium mining is…
Read MoreWell done Tom Kerridge and ‘Start them young’
Well done Tom Kerridge on helping inform people how to cook, save money and make families’ happier. If you haven’t watched Tom’s show
Read MoreValentine week: Week 7 of BigBarn’s food and drink weeks
What treat have you got planned for your Valentine? Food and drink is a primal need so surely what better way to reach your…
Read MorePurple Sprouting & Broccoli Week: Week 6 of BigBarn’s Food & Drink Weeks
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Read MoreShould every community have a dairy?
Sounds Mad? Every rural community used to have a dairy like this traditional farmer on BBC’s Secret Life of Farm Animals…
Read MoreStart the day, the Big Barn way
Having a British breakfast is not actually as hard as it seems. You can start with some delicious home-grown British eggs (free range always…
Read MoreThe next Big Idea
The government and media are calling for the next BIG IDEA Is this a new technology? A way of life? Science? Social network? Do…
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