Articles
A portrait of the landscape
The palette of land management skills extends beyond shades of green. Broad strokes of business acumen, scientific expertise and collaborative effort are essential for an accurate portrayal. Joshua Davis brings
Ecology is not an alternative
UK agricultural colleges often struggle to embrace regenerative practices. Alex Gray looks at how the next generation of farmers might be convinced to embrace ecology in their practice. I was
Britain’s farming – has beans
Beans should be a mainstay in livestock feeds: it’s time for UK agriculture to take its pulse, says John McArthur. The Defra Farming Roadmap was released on 24 June 2026
The pub: going down
Lauren Leek says Britain’s pub crisis is about far more than pints. It is about the quiet disappearance of places that hold communities together. My brother is coming to London
Eating your way out of a rut
For a healthy source of meat, venison could be fair game but beware what you wish for. Lachlan Kenneally writes. The UK’s Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Taking the die out of diet
Henry Leveson-Gower and Dil Green map potential paths to escape the tyranny of Big Food. The modern food system delivers cheap calories at scale, but at the cost of health,
Give and take
What happens when the same people who once marched in protest suddenly find themselves inside Town Hall? Tanya Zerbian, Soledad Cuevas, Ana Moragues-Faus and Daniel López-García tell the tale of
The Breadbasket on Borrowed Time
Julien Étienne tells the story of the Fens—an engineered landscape that feeds the UK, and whose people are facing critical threats from climate change. The threat of climate change to
Meat: what’s the beef and who pays?
Stephanie Walton herds the arguments around how stranded assets might be handled were the world to rein in its rampant carnivorousness to the point where the planet isn’t slaughtered. Over
Stop blaming the “food system”
Donatella Gasparro suggests the real culprit is capitalism, and we need a post-growth alternative. After more than ten years of involvement in agri-food matters from a bizarrely wide variety of
The growing population
Planting fields with a variety of strains of each plant makes for a resilient crop in the face of global warming. But global markets create other priorities? Nick Easen writes.
Episodes in a cereal
Jack Thompson tells the hidden history of pollution, profiteering and protest behind Britain’s favourite breakfast cereal. Weetabix, the compressed wheat biscuit usually served drowned in milk, is a cereal that
Time to go clubbing
The Mint editor, Henry Leveson-Gower, describes how joining the club could raise the tempo of environmental regeneration. Earlier this year, a group of farmers who had formed under the banner
A few too many?
Is it time to call time on pub closures in the UK? J Mark Dodds warns that we are losing more than our place at the bar. Once the heart
Bioeconomically speaking
Sofia Casas warns of another shade of greenwash. With COP-30 approaching this November in Belém – in the heart of the Amazon – the term “bioeconomy” has become a powerful
News
Columns
Neither credible nor edible
The EAT–Lancet Commission on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems, a key international authority, published its latest report in October 2025. Its conclusions were damning: “More than half of the world’s
WI Oh WI
When home-cooked turkey roasted Reformed chicken. I’ve developed a whole new respect for the WI. I’ll never unsee its indestructible president, Virginia Austen, using her WI pinny like a matador’s
Malnutrition is a weapon of war
Generations of Gaza’s population have been below the breadline since Israel came into being as a state. Frances Coppola explains. “Famine, what famine? There’s no famine in Gaza. Look at
Books
The Waste-Free World
From the publisher: Our take-make-waste economy has cost consumers and taxpayers billions while cheating us out of a habitable planet. But it doesn’t have to be this way. The Waste-Free
The Future of Food
From the publisher: By the middle of this century, we will have nine billion mouths to feed and nobody who wants to be a farmer. Projections suggest we might not
Peddle Preneur
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Peddle Preneur
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