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Milk from the desert: How grazing camels boost environmental and human health in water-stressed regions

Sustainable Food Trust

At the beginning of the 21 st century, nomadic pastoralist cultures throughout the world are under siege, regarded as backward, and losing their ancestral pasture grounds to ‘development’, from mining and irrigated agriculture to green energy projects. While weeding the fields, the camels also fertilise them with their manure.

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Our 2023 Food and Farming Holiday Book Gift Guide

Civil Eats

Sprinkled throughout the recipes are fascinating historical tidbits about the Quaker who first cultivated rhubarb in the 1730s, for example, and the Indigenous tribes that used spruce tip tea to ward off scurvy. To make an amaro (relatively easy!) you need to first learn to make a tincture.

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