Apples & 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…
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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 MoreThe EU Food & Farming policy for the last 30 years has been to subsidise farmers, and the industry, to provide all EU consumers…
Read MoreWhat will the exit vote mean to our food industry and food prices? As a net importer of food will there be duties and…
Read MoreEvery school should have an asparagus bed! Veg patch and fruit trees. Please sign here. An asparagus bed sounds odd but will actually…
Read MoreThere are lots of tweets, blogs and videos about food, farming and the ‘food industry’. Here are two great ones that popped up recently…
Read MoreFor millions of years we humans found it difficult to find sugar and salt. As a result part of our brain tells us to…
Read MoreBigBarn is all about reconnecting people with where their food comes. This means cutting out the middle men to give both consumer and producer…
Read MoreIt is so fantastic that bread making at home has become fashionable again. People are blogging about it, talking about it and getting out…
Read MoreSpring 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 MoreRising 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 is all about reconnecting consumers with where their food comes from and building sustainable local food communities where farmers and consumers get a…
Read MoreYet 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 MoreIn 1801, on the fifth anniversary of the death of Robert Burns, nine men who knew him met for dinner in Burns Cottage in…
Read MoreIt’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 Very Happy Christmas from us all at BigBarn. We thought that the big meal deservers a proper grace. So many people around the UK…
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