Guy's news: An emotional business

The soil is drying fast – and our valley is a frenzy of activity. Farmers are muck-spreading, ploughing, and sowing. Despite long working days, optimism has returned. ➡️ wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/opinion/an-emo…

I make no apologies for posting yet another of Guy's missives from Riverford, he talks a lot of sense. I just hope that somebody is listening. #glyphosate #ClimateCrisis #Farming

Blueberry, banana & walnut muffin 😋 Thanks for the recipe Riverford

Our founder Guy Singh-Watson is on the panel for this online talk this evening, 'Fairness for Food (Farming, Nature, Climate and Health)' you can register for free here➡️eventbrite.co.uk/e/fairness-for…

News: A walk in the field

This week’s newsletter is by Riverford chef Bob Andrew: 'Regularly swapping my apron for a pair of wellies has been essential in deepening my appreciation; making me look anew at things we so often take for granted.'

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Riverford founder Guy, on why he loves cardoons: 'save the world, and have a lovely supper too!”

Wildlife-friendly and delicious, cardoons' #perennial nature make them a seriously sustainable veggie. Have you tried them?

This week's Riverford news topic, spraying. Last week I watched the field next to my home being rolled, on a windy day, the dry soil blowing off in the wind. The field was brown & bare. Next day they came back to spray... what exactly? I have to get my laundry in quickly too! 🙁

Our spuds get some very careful treatment before they’re graded and packed, ready for your doorstep 🥔 🫶

Guy's news: The madness of maize

While most of Devon is bright green, an emerging patchwork of fields is turning yellow. This is the kiss of death from glyphosate, the ‘world’s favourite herbicide’.

➡️ wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/opinion/the-ma…

The most delicious way to eat your greens, this one pan dish is simple, nourishing and quick to throw together.

You can switch up the veg depending on what you have to hand.

Let us know if this is making it’s way onto your meal plan?

Recipe 👇

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🚨🚂 The intensive production of 1.1 billion chickens a year is a runaway train, that risks turning more of our rivers into dead zones

We have reached peak poultry - and large agribusiness is to blame

Wicked Leeks

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Long term, satisfied customer happy to recommend Riverford #vegetables and #fruit #ArrivedToday

A lovely piece on one of our South Devon suppliers Dayne's Farm.

Another day spent soil sampling at Orchard Organic Farm in a new agroforestry plot 🌳🐓 I’d say the hens were more helpful than Teddy 🐶 he kept stealing my bamboo canes! #agroforestry #soils #carbon Riverford Harriet Bell

Toxins known as 'forever chemicals' have been found in common fruits and vegetables in the UK. Organic farmers never use synthetic pesticides, which can contain these chemicals. Isn't it time we saw some action on this? PAN UK
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Guy's news: Taking back control...of water

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These muffins are perfect for little hands to help with if you're wrangling school holidays, or have young visitors in the house.

But they're just as fun to make by yourself, and we've yet to meet the person who resist a freshly baked muffin!

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“We don’t operate kneejerk, stopgap measures at Riverford – if a supplier has issues with harvest shortfalls or poor quality due to factors out of their control, we don’t cut ties and go off to find someone to replace them.”
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Guy's news: Foraging our way through a gloomy spring
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Well done to all shortlisted, but especially to all who make the Ripple Effect and Riverford Organic Farmers partnership so special. The customers and colleagues of Riverford have helped thousands of farmers in East Africa transform their lives.