What 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…
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…
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