The Food Issue
Issue 309 • July/August 2018
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Welcome
Eat Well, Eat Wisely • Greg Neale
Rethinking food and farming
Frontline
Conservation on land and sea • Marianne Brown
Wildflower meadows and whale sharks
Food Features • Marianne Brown
Real Bread campaign and NHS food policy
News from the Grassroots • Marianne Brown
A round up of environmental news from around the globe
Exhibition Celebrates 35 Years of Campaigning • Greg Neale
Common ground champions the connection between people and place
News from Resurgence • Greg Neale
Update on Resurgence Summer Camp and the Festival of Wellbeing
Ecologist
Making the Case for Going Green • Oliver Tickell
An interview with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on why he is passionate about vegetables
Face of a Hero • Philip Strange
Unsung solitary bees are vital to our ecosystem
Keeping them Sweet • Miriam Darlington
Natural beekeeping
Learn from Nature If We Want to Survive • Herbert Girardet
From land to sea, we need regenerative action to restore our planet's health
We Must Rethink Our Food Policy • Sue Pritchard
A new enquiry into food and farming and a call for more joined up thinking
How To Be A Good Forager • Kate Blincoe
The pleasures of gathering wild food
Keynotes
If We Want to Prosper, We Need New Meaning • Jeremy Lent
A change in our collective thinking is necessary to avert social and environmental collapse
Undercurrents
Rich Man, Poor Man, Poor Planet • Rowland Atkinson
The extravagances of the super-rich threaten us all
Charting A Different Course • Horatio Morpurgo
A new narrative in voyages of discovery
Poet by the Sea • Ben Okri
A short story, illustrated by Rosemary Clunie
Ethical Living
Don't Call Me Cup Cake • Marianne Brown
How to raise a 'good eater'
Beasts at Bedtime • Liam Heneghan
Stories for children can encourage environmental awareness
Lost and Found • Leo Johnson
Humanity wins out over technology
Earth, Hands, Mouth • Satish Kumar
The value of wholesome food
Dreams on a Midsummer Night • Peter Reason
Sleeping among the sounds, scents and stillness of high season
And Now, the Late News • Matt Harvey
Writing to order…
The Arts
Leaves and Branches, Memories and Emotions • India Windsor-Clive
Welcoming the summer shows of Tacita Dean
Seasonal Lessons From the Land • Adam Horovitz
Reflecting on a year spent on four British farms
Zen and the Art of Seeing • Grace Rodgers
Photography informed by Buddhist practice
Life's Rich Pattern • PL Henderson
Exploring the work of environmental artist Liz McGowan
Regulars
Poetry - Uphill After Rain • Peter Abbs
Reflecting on the haunting work of Edward Thomas
Letters to the Editors
A selection of letters to our editors
Reviews
Our Vanishingly Pleasant Land • Michael McCarthy
Review of Our Place: Can We Save Britain's Wildlife Before It Is Too Late?
Beating the System, Metaphorically • Brendan Montague
Review of The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
A Morning Wake-Up Call • Anna Turn
Review of Morning: How to Make Time - A Manifesto
Growing Pains • Russell Warfield
Review of The Growth Delusion
An Appetite for Connection • Clare Finney
Review of Eat Up! Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
Shining New Light on Our Future • Edward Davy
Review of Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming and Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
Web Exclusives
Article - My Week As A Vegan • Clare Finney
Trying a week as a vegan as part of the Vegan Society's Plate Up for the Planet Campaign
Article - Organic Farming • Gregory Barton
Celebrating the trio behind a ground-breaking environmental movement
Article - Why Green Campaigns Need Some Seasoning • Nick Robins
Grounding activism in the Earth's Calendar
Article - Environmentalists challenged to go vegan on World Environment Day • George Monbiot, Kerry McCarthy, Dale Vince & Jonathan Bartley
Making a real change, right now by joining the Plate Up for the Planet Campaign