Potato week: Week 40 of BigBarn’s food and drink weeks
Over recent years the humble potato has had a bad wrap. Which seems ridiculous considering it is a staple food for most of the world. From…
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Should we ban Trans Fats
We wrote about banning Trans Fats over 10 years ago yet many foods still have them amongst the long list of ingredients, often in…
Read MoreBottled water: another example of the mad food & drink industry
Globally, we now drink 30 litres of packaged water per person per year, and in the UK 22% is imported. The same stats are…
Read MoreWhat to do with your superfood Beetroot Crop
If like me you like Beetroot and have a big crop in your veg patch this year, here are a few ideas on what…
Read MoreMilk Week: Week 37 of BigBarn’s food & Drink Weeks
The Milk crisis has quite rightly made the news, and the subject of our blogs recently. Dairy farmers are fighting for survival and the…
Read MoreOlive oil shortage? Don’t worry switch to local virgin rapeseed oil.
Olive oil prices are expected to double due to the current world shortage of olives. Olive oil lovers are worrying about the…
Read MoreWhy we ignore the horrors of factory farming
A farming friend of mine is setting up a huge chicken shed, should he feel guilty, or should consumers feel guilty buying the factory…
Read MoreMorrison’s treating their customers like idiots
We wrote 18 months ago about Tesco becoming complacent when promoting an offer ‘1 for £1 or 2 for £2’. To us…
Read MoreMilk crisis must not result in mega dairies
A farmer taking his cow to the supermarket to buy his milk back and give it to local people! That’s how mad the food…
Read MoreApples & Pears: Week 33 of BigBarn’s food and drink weeks
If you’re lucky enough to have your own orchard you will have noticed your apples and pears starting to appear in abundance on the…
Read MoreCancer from our Daily bread
Farmers are being advised to spray the chemical Roundup on their mature milling wheat to aid ripening and increase the final protein quality. Will…
Read MoreOil week: Week 29 of BigBarn’s food and drink weeks
We are told so often not to eat oil because it is bad for you but in fact it isn’t. Rapeseed oil is an…
Read MoreChina building a 100,000 cow dairy unit to supply Russian market
China is building a 100,000 cow dairy unit to supply Russian market. In the UK pasture farmer sells his raw milk locally and makes…
Read MoreCan a supermarket become a ‘farm’ shop?
Some highly commercial farm shops have become more like supermarkets with a huge range of products from hundreds of suppliers. So, can a supermarket…
Read MoreTechnology to get cows in our fields again
I took this picture yesterday when I recognised the beautiful setting. I then spotted the sheep and realised that sheep farming contributed to the…
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