Sugar 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…
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Can 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…
Read MorePurple week: Week 8 of BigBarn’s food & drink weeks
Spring is finally here…almost. The daffodils are poking their heads out (even if it has been a bit early). They are always a welcome…
Read MoreSupermarkets cash in on sourdough bread. Typical
Rising sales of sourdough bread have prompted supermarkets and industrial bakers to launch their own versions. Typically they are cutting corners causing potentially serious…
Read MoreBigBarn on TV: Building our local food community
BigBarn is all about reconnecting consumers with where their food comes from and building sustainable local food communities where farmers and consumers get a…
Read MoreTesco’s ‘crimes’ should inspire us to give up supermarkets
Yet another horrible story about Tesco should inspire us all to stop shopping at supermarkets and switch to local shops and producers. Tesco got the…
Read MoreHaggis and Offal week: Week 3 of BigBarn’s food and drink weeks
In 1801, on the fifth anniversary of the death of Robert Burns, nine men who knew him met for dinner in Burns Cottage in…
Read MoreGuest blog from Modernize: Grow Your Own Edible Garden
It’s already 7 p.m., your kids are hungry, you haven’t eaten since lunch, and you need to make something fresh and delicious. What are…
Read MoreA grace to celebrate the big meal
A Very Happy Christmas from us all at BigBarn. We thought that the big meal deservers a proper grace. So many people around the UK…
Read MoreChristmas Sides
So you have finally decided between turkey, goose and roast beef for Christmas dinner but now what to serve with it? And what will…
Read MoreDecember in the organic garden & veg patch
Guest Blog from Philippa Pearson and the Soil Association Try and finish off any winter digging this month and don’t forget…
Read MoreChristmas Food and present ideas from BigBarn
Christmas is getting so close and each year there is always that person who is just too hard to buy for. Well, a fancy…
Read MorePlastic bag tax success. Should sugar and meat follow?
The number of plastic bags taken home by Tesco shoppers has dropped by almost 80% since a 5p levy was introduced. Surely this prove…
Read MoreShould there be a tax on meat?
Taxing meat to tackle climate change and improve health would be far less unpopular than government’s think. Original article Guardian 24/11/15 If government…
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