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A quarter of the UK’s food contains pesticide cocktails.  These are residues of multiple chemicals added during the crop’s growing life.  This ‘cocktail effect’ is not examined by the government safety agency - despite evidence that these cocktails can harm human health and wildlife.

Can you help us to end the use of peat in horticulture?

Over 95% of the UK’s peat bogs have become degraded or destroyed. This not only wipes out these rare ecosystems – wild areas which are home to a wealth of plants, birds and insects – but also rapidly increases our carbon emissions.

It's a bumper harvest in this month’s podcast.
Chris and Sarah discuss the fun of saving your own seed – it’s free, it works, and you’ll know that next year’s plants will be organic.  Other practical tips include how to prune raspberries, make leafmould, and protect brassicas from those pesky pigeons!

The Wales Real Food and Farming Conference, taking its lead from the Oxford Real Farming Conference, will explore diverse issues across sustainable food and farming, bringing together farmers, food producers, environmentalists and people involved in public health, food education, sovereignty and justice.