Ashfield is one of those places politicians call “left behind”. Once a mining area, this post-industrial slice of Nottinghamshire has, like many others, had to find a new purpose since the pits closed ...
A newly formed alliance representing 160 food and farming organisations is urging government action to deliver a strong UK ...
Once upon a time in Britain, moors were covered in golden wheat and vineyards flourished. Now, farmers are flirting with England's first tea crop.... The British really love their tea. It often trumps ...
LONDON (Reuters) - An agriculture bill will be introduced in Britain's parliament on Thursday, with funding for the industry increasingly linked to tackling environmental challenges as the country ...
POOLEY BRIDGE, England — With the number of cases rising like flood waters in an unrelenting storm, foot-and-mouth disease has cut a swath of economic devastation through the heart of Britain’s ...
(RNS) — At Sadeh, a farm in Kent, Talia Chain and her small staff are reconnecting Judaism with its agricultural roots and biblical principles of growing food. (RNS) — In the largely rural society of ...
THE FIELD is in Hertfordshire, but it could be almost anywhere in lowland England. It is 600m wide and twice as long. On its northern edge is a frail, gappy hedgerow that would not stop a car, let ...
“British farming has recently been on the front line of climate change impacts,” Bradshaw said in July, responding to a report by the independent Climate Change Committee. Ian Bowness, 52, who runs a ...