Archive for the ‘Green food’ Category

About four weeks ago we decided to to a summer eco market in Brighton, to bring together lots of like minded sellers and makers into one place for a fantastic day of eco inspired shopping, food and fun.

Here’s a question: how well do you know your neighbours? As I write this I realise that I don’t actually know many of my neighbours by face, let alone by name, which feels pretty shocking…

A friend who lives in Wales is telling me about Freeganism, which involves salvaging discarded, unspoiled food from supermarket bins. It reminds me of the time I visited a different friend who used to live on a houseboat on the Thames. One of her neighbours, ‘Mad’ Pierre, who rumour had it…

There are plans afoot. Real plans aimed at tackling climate change by getting us to become more local. Which means in the future we could all be taking local holidays, growing our own food, and generating our own energy.

Running the store, it’s sometimes hard to get a moment to write the blog. Should you come here looking for a new update and find nothing new to read, can I nudge you instead towards Rocks Magazine? It’s a Brighton-based online magazine that describes itself as a

This summer - if we can dare call it a summer yet - I’m noticing how many people are planting vegetables out in their gardens. There’s a house near me that has packed its front garden full of onions, cabbages, beans, potatoes and tomatoes - even sweetcorn…

I was pleased to see nigelsecostore.com getting a mention for this one in yesterday’s Observer. I started out by stocking the kind of items that appealed to me. As time’s gone on, I’m trying to add more items for the whole family - like the Paperpod Rocket.

The fundamental problem with biofuels is already making an impact.

The Soil Association issued their annual report at the weekend during their Organic Food Festival in Bristol. Their director of food and farming Helen Browning noted an increasing shortage of organic cereals. She blames it on rising prices for soya, maize and grain created by America’s new hunger for biofuels.

I read this on Grist. A reader of the American environment news site watches British sit coms like As Time Goes By and Keeping Up Appearances. He has noticed how small British fridges are compared to US ones…

The Soil Association have been toying with the idea of removing organic certification from food flown in from countries like Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia on the grounds that freighting food overseas damages the environment. Airfreighted food has too high a carbon foorprint, runs the argument…