Will African Swine Flu increase UK meat prices ?
Many millions of pigs are being culled in Asia as African Swine Flu continues to spread uncontrolled. With loss of supply, and growing Chinese…
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It’s Open Farm Week!
Have a hunt for a farm to visit this Sunday, the 9th June, and make the most of Open Farm Sunday! It’s the perfect…
Read MoreWill learning to cook improve health?
If everyone knew how to cook would we all become more healthy and help reduce NHS, and taxpayer, costs? Let me explain: I have just…
Read MoreIt’s as gouda as it gets! It’s cheese week at Big Barn
If you get your local milk from the milkman, local farm shop or even the supermarket, then you might have noticed them heavily promoting…
Read MoreWhat should we do about ultra-processed food?
Consumption of ultra processed food is increasing, and has been linked to early death and vast cost to the NHS. And UK taxpayer. As…
Read MoreWhat to do in your organic veg patch in June
Do you grow organically, or want to try? Here is a great resource to help you grow great fruit and veg at home from…
Read MoreSmallholders’ Handbook part 3
Here is our third instalment about joining the Good Life and living off the land with a sustainable smallholding. At BigBarn we would love to…
Read MorePop the cork! It’s English Wine Week!
English wine week is now here! Twinned with a bank holiday weekend with glorious weather predicted, now is the time to enjoy the…
Read MoreGet planting! It’s tomato week at Big Barn!
The time is here! It’s time to plant your tomatoes! We all know that they’re the ingredient of the summer. They bring together all of…
Read MoreLike climate change is food waste, and health, an emergency?
Latest news about Heart disease deaths in under 75’s going up for the first time in 50 years and the government appointing a ‘Food…
Read MoreWe can’t bee-lieve it! It’s honey week at Big Barn
Although the temperatures are dropping just in time for the bank holiday weekend, we expect a few of you have had some lovely yellow…
Read MoreIt’s Asparagus week! Here’s why it’s the king of locally grown fresh produce
The king of locally grown, and fresh produce, is asparagus. As a country we don’t export a single spear of asparagus, so it must…
Read MoreWhat to do in your organic veg patch in May
Do you grow organically, or want to try? Here is a great resource to help you grow great fruit and veg at home from…
Read MoreHow to save £40M/year of tax payers money
Did you know that £40m per year is spent on every state school child between 4 and 6 having a free piece of fruit,…
Read MoreSmallholders’ Handbook part 2
Here is our second instalment about joining the Good Life and living off the land with a sustainable smallholding. At BigBarn we would love to…
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