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New Video: Waitrose LEAF Marque Christmas Trees
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 wi…
Events Update
The events page has been updated with new 2016 and 2017 events. Please click here to view
New Video by CFS – Soil Solutions to Climate Problems
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, usi…
Nasa & IPC to find out whether potatoes could be grown on Mars
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 Met Office indicates that the UK growing season has increased in the past 10 years
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
Results from new research on crop wild relatives
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 …
New research shows that microbes protect plants with plant hormones
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
FAO Global Soils Week 2015
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 Substanc…
Third Plenary Assembly of the Global Soil Partnership
The third plenary assembly of the Global Soil Partnership Plenary Assembly will take place at the FAO headquarters in Rome from 22nd – 24th June 2015. The assembly will review and prioritise GSP…
LASI 2014 annual report
A link to the 2014 Annual Report for the LASI (Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects) has been added to the portal. The report gives updates on the progress of LASI’s research. Yo…
Events update
We are please to announce that the next event is the suppliers technical conference which will be held at Warwick University Scarman House Conference Centre starting at 6pm on 11th November and 9am on…
Pollinator Management
The University of Reading has produced factsheets on pollinator management, covering a variety of topics such as food and shelter. They were presented at the recent Waitrose Science Day and are no…
New FAO book: ” Coping with Climate Change”
The FAO have released a new book this week, ” Coping with Climate Change”. It is available for free on the link below. The key message is that genetic diversity is important to coping wi…
2015: FAO Year of Soil
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has announced that 2015 is the International Year of Soils. This campaign aims to promote the importance of soils for a healthy ecosys…
Barfoots on the BBC
One of our key suppliers Barfoots of Botley has recently been featured on the popular BBC programme, The One Show. Food critic Jay Rayner, visited Barfoots to understand all their work on susta…
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