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Butcher profile: Will Simkin, Essington Farm Shop, Wolverhampton

Sustainable Food Trust

In our series of butcher profiles, food and farming writer, Marianne Landzettel, meets butchers from across the UK who have built their business around high welfare, sustainably produced meat. If it weren’t for the signposts, first time visitors to the farm shop and butchers might well miss the entrance.

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As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust

Civil Eats

Date palm plantations and orchards cover the eastern Coachella Valley to the north. Since then, the sea has served as the dumping ground for decades of pollution from farming as well as legacy bomb-testing material. 1 commodity for the last 64 years. In 2002, U.S. is 151 or greater. As a result, the chemicals drift.