REAL Food and Farming

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.

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 [...]

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.
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For those who don’t know, here’s a description of the Dales uplands.
Nestling beneath the windswept moors, the dales are an essential part of the character of the National Park.
Most farming is traditional cattle and sheep rearing with a few dairy farms. Many of the farms have rights to graze sheep on the moor and have [...]