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Did You Know?
There are more than 60 Hill, Mountain and Downland sheep breeds which annually produce in the region of 37,000,000 kilos of fleece wool.
Did you know?
Farming is vital in the battle against global warming. Every 100 hectares of crops soaks up between 30 and 60 tonnes of carbon a year.
Can you buy local?
Whether we like it or not change is coming to the way we buy food. Prices for foreign produced organic feed is already driving up the price of UK organic pork and poultry. Asian countries are getting richer and eating more meat and competing with the west for food traded on global markets, cheap food is rapidly becomming a thing of the past.
The BBC Food Programme on Radio 4 is currently investigating this and had a fascinating programme last week about the Fife Diet where a group of individuals in Fife were asked to spend the past year buying food produced locally. This is followed up this week with a look at how scientists are tackling the problem nationally.
You can hear the programme again here.
Tempest Chutney Festival
To celebrate the huge variety of chutney the Tempest Arms at Elslack will be holding their first chutney festival on November 1st. They are amazed and encouraged by the number of entries and also by the fact that entries are coming from a diverse set of chutney makers from young students to old hands.
Advice to the entrants is - Homemade & Seasonal, Conscientious food - No additives but rain and sunshine. No Re-labelled Supermarket contributions!!!
Patron of the festival is Stephanie Moon, Executive Chef at Rudding Park who will be joined by Julia Marley of Bendgate to judge the competition.
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Hill farming communities play a vital role in many areas of our lives, literally providing access to everything from food to fresh air.
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