Waitrose working to encourage sustainable food production
Arriving in Waitrose branches for the first time this year are British grown Christmas trees carrying the LEAF Marque logo, meaning they have been sustainably grown with care for the countryside and wildlife that live there. Grown by LEAF Marque certified business, Hopeman Christmas Trees Ltd in the Black Isle, a peninsula in the north […]
An industry consortium, led by Berry Gardens Growers Ltd and NIAB EMR, has won a BBSRC collaborative training partnership (CTP) award to provide a £1.9 million postgraduate programme for scientific research on fruit crops.
Waitrose Horticulture has a strong heritage in sustainably sourcing cut flowers and pot plants. Today, however, we’re up in Inverness, looking at LEAF Marque Christmas trees. We’ve been working with these growers for nearly 4 years now, since we launched Christmas trees in Waitrose, as they understand how to grow a really consistent tree, both […]
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The following video is a basic introduction to Soil Carbon and is a really good presentation tool to illustrate what we as growers are trying to do to boost soil carbon. It also illustrates how, using this approach, we can make a massive difference to climate change if all growers adopted this approach
Nasa is collaborating with the International Potato Centre, based in Peru, to find out if potatoes could be grown on Mars Click here to view
The Guardian has reported information from the Met Office indicating that the UK growing season in past 10 years is on average 29 days longer than between 1961-1990 Click here to view
New research published in Nature shows that many of the wild crops that will be needed for future food supply are poorly represented in the world’s gene banks. The most critical gaps are in the Mediterranean and the Near East, western and southern Europe, Southeast and East Asia, and South America. Click here to view
New research has shown, for the first time, that a beneficial microbe is producing a plant hormone that protects a plant by inducing plant resistance. Click here to view
The Executive Director for the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies has published conclusions from the FAO’s Global Soils week 2015. The theme of this year was “Soil. The Substance of Transformation” You can find the conclusions here: link
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