02/November/20

 

The Landworkers' Alliance has made a short video asking the UK government to protect British food standards. You can sign the petitions in support of "the overwhelming majority of Brits (who) do not want low-quality (US) food being imported to the UK". Farmers – sign here: http://bit.ly/2JtNWYl; Chefs/home cooks – sign here: http://bit.ly/2TMo8II Landworkers' Alliance

 

 

Essex farmer George Young grows heritage wheat, winter beans, spring beans, barley, peas, hemp, linseed and buckwheat with plans to convert to agroecological organic farming methods. Increasing crop diversity with reduced artificial inputs, circular farming and provision of wildlife habitats are his key priorities. He already doesn’t use insecticides and has massively decreased his reliance on nitrogen and fungicides, as he explains in a fascinating interview. PAN-UK

 

 

Researchers from the University of California, Davis have found that pesticides and a lack of flowering plants contribute to a waning bee population. Out of these two threats, pesticides were the biggest. Pesticides reduced bee reproduction 1.75 times more than the scarcity of their food source. Pesticides were responsible for devastating diseases that ravaged many bee species, especially in the United States. Power of Positivity