Help 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…
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Bread week: Week 8 of BigBarn’s food and drink weeks
Bread. It’s delightful with multitude of toppings, it’s great for being dipped and this staple has so many other uses and they’re all absolutely…
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
Buy local for fresh & best…
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…
Read MoreAnnoyed by vegans?
Anyone find vegans annoying following recent media coverage like: “Vegan’s say cows are being raped to produce milk!” Or is it just the media…
Read MoreWe support VEGPOWER
VEGPOWER is all about getting kids to grow, cook and eat much more vegetables. As this matches our petition to get…
Read MoreWe must change the economics of the food industry or face disaster.
Further to listening to the famous economist Mariana Mazzucato on Desert Island discs yesterday I realised why the food industry is…
Read MoreWhy Food Growing on the School Curriculum is a ‘No Brainer’
I was interviewed on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on Monday about our petition to get Food Growing, Cooking & Nutrition on the Curriculum. At the…
Read MoreChristmas Present Ideas and Goodies From BigBarn
Christmas is getting close and loved ones need lovely presents. This can be very difficult so we have put together lots of ideas for…
Read MoreUpdate on our Petition to get Food Growing, Cooking and Nutrition on the School Curriculum
If you care about tax and the health of the next generation please sign and forward our petition “Get Food Growing,…
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