Beyond the aisles.
We all have a role to play when it comes to the issue of food waste — even what occurs outside of the household — but how do we take action against something we cannot always see?...
12 August, 2019
Gleaning in the UK
My exploration of the issue of food waste has largely focused on the great work by being done individuals and organisations to reduce the amount of edible food needlessly going to waste – focusing on the solutions to the root causes of so much of...
19 March, 2019
Seedling – Reducing Food Waste through Vertical Farming and Aquaponics
In this episode, I’m speaking to Travis Andren from Seedling in Philadelphia, in the United States – an organisation working on bringing efficient forms of urban-based, vertical farming and aquaponics into the mainstream....
19 April, 2017
The Gleaning Network – Saving Cauliflowers and Cabbages
Supermarkets imposing ridiculous and wholly unnecessary cosmetic standards are known to be one of the main causes of perfectly edible food going to waste at a farm level. ...
04 April, 2015
The Gleaning Network: Reducing Food Waste on UK Farms
We are all conscious on some level of the amount of food we waste – edible or otherwise, within our own home, and aware that there is avoidable food waste generated by supermarkets and the wider, urban-based commercial, catering and hospitality sectors. But what about...
13 September, 2014
The Pig Idea: Behind the Scenes
The first time I came across The Pig Idea was when they were serving up the pork they had produced, and were attempting to feed 5,000 people in Trafalgar Square in the heart of London. It’s a great initiative that deserves a lot more attention and...
23 July, 2014