Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Twice a month, Catherine Withers heads to market two miles away in Bedminster, to sell her wares, much as her family have done for generations. Hundreds of acres of Bristol farmland, with its meadows and hedges and resident wildlife, was swept away by the concrete sprawl and the ambitions of its new owners.

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Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Perennial wheat, marketed as Kernza, doesn’t have enough gluten to make bread or pasta; robot-milking systems don’t allow for pasture feeding, requiring cows to remain in barns year-round for the system to be profitable. A closer look, though, shows that most of these techno fixes have serious downsides.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 12, 2023

The farm is an organic fifth-generation beef and dairy farm in north Somerset, which is mainly made up of permanent pasture and hay meadows, both rich in native grasses, wildflowers and wildlife. Currently, this is not always understood or captured effectively by the market mechanisms.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Farmers’ self-sufficiency and resilience in the face of market shocks and extreme climate events will be essential components of the UK’s future food security, and the social stability, health and growth the Government seeks. xviii] For example, Clifton Ings and Rawcliffe Meadows are a crucial part of the City of York’s flood defences.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 6, 2024

One of the farms mentioned in the book is Cannerheugh Farm in Renwick, a 360-acre farm, where Nic and Paul Renison produce 100% pasture-fed beef, as well as pastured eggs, chicken and pork. A life-enhancing read from the author of the bestselling gem The Secret Life of Cows.”

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

At the same time, productive land as well as field margins and natural areas can be of great value to nature – a traditionally managed hay meadow or unsprayed crop can harbour and support a range of biodiversity and facilitate the movement of species through the landscape. Or is it too little? At what level do we move from good to bad?

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Even though they are not immune from the ravages of the virus, smaller-scale and pasture-raised poultry operations have, so far, shown themselves to be more resilient against the outbreak, some experts sayeven if thats only because their smaller size is a check against hundreds of thousands of birds dying all at once at a single location.

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