Grains Week: Week 46 of BigBarns Food & Drink Weeks
With so much health advice around, and reports of the cancer risk of farmers spraying Glyphosate on ripe wheat, (previous blog here),…
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Thought about joining the Slow Food movement?
Slow Food was originally set up in Italy in 1989 to combat the spread of Fast Food. It is here to make us…
Read MoreNut week: Week 45 of BigBarn’s food and drink weeks
Packed with protein, fibre and essential fats, nuts are one of the best foods to put in your body, especially when snack time rolls…
Read MoreYour invite to the Farm Business Innovation Show 2016
We will be exhibiting and running a workshop at the Farm Business Innovation show. Brexit has already caused some changes in…
Read MoreModern bread v real bread?
I went to a bread factory recently and saw how machines and 5 humans make 1 million loaves of fluffy sliced bread that stays…
Read MoreDon’t blame farmers for wildlife loss!
Intensive farming and farmers are being blamed for the loss in wildlife which is totally unfair. Farmers live on their land and do not…
Read MoreWhat price do we pay for ‘cheap’ food
A number of reports say that food as a percentage of income is as cheap now as it has ever been. We live in…
Read MoreApples & Pears: Week 33 of BigBarn’s food and drink weeks
Apples and pears are now growing fat on the trees ready for this years harvest. Apples and pears grow world wide but in our…
Read MoreBrexit: a chance to fix the food industry?
The EU Food & Farming policy for the last 30 years has been to subsidise farmers, and the industry, to provide all EU consumers…
Read MoreDoes BREXIT mean higher food prices?
What will the exit vote mean to our food industry and food prices? As a net importer of food will there be duties and…
Read MorePlease sign our petition: Every school should have a Veg patch
Every school should have an asparagus bed! Veg patch and fruit trees. Please sign here. An asparagus bed sounds odd but will actually…
Read MoreSocial Media & tech helping change the food industry?
There are lots of tweets, blogs and videos about food, farming and the ‘food industry’. Here are two great ones that popped up recently…
Read MoreSugar tax should help us combat instinct? Or is education better?
For millions of years we humans found it difficult to find sugar and salt. As a result part of our brain tells us to…
Read MoreCan a local food community make us vegetarians?
BigBarn is all about reconnecting people with where their food comes. This means cutting out the middle men to give both consumer and producer…
Read MoreBread week: Week 9 of Big Barn’s food and drink weeks
It is so fantastic that bread making at home has become fashionable again. People are blogging about it, talking about it and getting out…
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