The Food Issue

Contents

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