Concerning to see cases like this emerging; private equity companies competing directly with farming families for available farmland. 🌲🐑

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War maybe about to start 1400 miles away 😳 So Can any one tell me why we are talking about rewilding & planting trees 🤔 & we are only 60% self sufficient in food, 🤷‍♂️

Which of these is most helpful? A. Co-op telling us about Maltesers UK biscuits. or B. Iceland Foods ❄️ telling us how to get #NHSHealthyStart vouchers, worth £4.25 per week towards milk, fruit & veg for children under 5. I'll start: #ThankYouIceland🙌

Worried about all the south west farmers tonight, and their livestock, sending love and support to all staring at the weather maps tonight x

THIS is what a broken food system looks like

Total pleasure. Good luck with the farm hunt Charlotte!

Catch this tomorrow morning, a young couple using their farm to bring life and community back into the local economy in west Cornwall by creating affordable spaces for small businesses while restoring the farm with sustainable practices. They have got it so right 💪🏻

So Vogue Magazine think this pub will ‘confuse its fashonista readers who might not be able to differentiate between their favourite glossy magazine full of top models and a proper Cornish boozer’😅 great writing Cornwall Live starinnvogue bad move Vogue cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-…

Amazing. Must be so much lighter than a full tractor too so less soil compaction. Now need a direct drill version?!

My latest piece for BBC Future in case you missed it: There are concerns that in our rush to grow food on ever bigger scales, we have inadvertently caused its nutritional content to wane. What can be done to reverse that? bbc.com/future/bespoke… via BBC Future

“99% of our deforestation risk is from animal feed” - eye opening insight from Tesco Head of Environment Anna Turrell speaking at the brilliant Groundswell with Rosie Boycott about how Big Business is adapting regenerative agriculture…or rather, how difficult it is to do

🇦🇺 🧑‍🌾 🇬🇧 Appalling that the Government has deliberately avoided parliamentary scrutiny of its terrible trade deal with Australia. The UK Government vowed to be a global leader for animals but now farm welfare standards are likely to be sacrificed for this quick trade agreement

You should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves McDonald's UK. Funnily enough your plans to Haringey Council showed trees remaining and no mention of plastic carpet. Misleading the Public and Planning Authority!

I have written a book with my brilliant friend Abby Allen of Pipers Farm. It focuses on small scale family farms as a means of creating a resilient food system based on grass, native breeds, and stewardship of the land to farm in harmony with nature. waterstones.com/book/978191423…

I can’t believe how many fields of crops on fire I’m seeing on my twitter timeline. Obviously I follow a lot of farmers, but this feels unprecedented. Is there any kind of national emergency protocol on this?

We are thrilled to share with you news of our new cookery book ‘The Sustainable Meat Book’ here’s what a few rather lovely people had to say about our first tome. Preorder here: linktr.ee/pipersfarm Thank you Xanthe Clay Melissa Hemsley Dan Saladino

And another one is up in flames 🔥 - that’s at least 5 this summer I’ve seen. How can the farmers, contractors and insurers keep going? Are there any combines left???!

Just when I thought Twitter was over, it has turned up this extraordinary thread of humanity gems in my timeline. A reminder that so many people are struggling and that there are many ways to help recovery that cost nothing. I hope you see this if you need it today.

In today’s programme Rachel Lovell heads to Devon to visit a grower offering an alternative to industrially-made dyes - Sophie Holt who grows specialist crops for the textile dye market bbc.in/3We4Pqz