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🥬 Around the UK, greengrocers are shutting up shop – an estimated two thirds of independent fruit & veg shops have closed in 30 years. Speaking to Wicked Leeks, our CEO Patrick Holden said that these closures have left people “yearning for real food”. wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/news/fruit-veg…

Brilliant article in Wicked Leeks. Delighted to have our work featured. Thank you to Nick Easen for highlighting this important issue. “This is about access to good fruit and veg...If we lose those places of retail, then our diet, health and food poverty get worse." Jonathan Pauling











Some great reading recommendations from the Wicked Leeks resources section from Riverford including books from Dr. Vandana Shiva Vicki Hird MSc FRES 🐝🦋 🍃💚🍃 Predrag Slijepcevic! wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/resources/


To celebrate #OrganicSeptember, the Soil Association shares what's best to sow, grow & enjoy, season by season 🍂 wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/how-t…


Dear supermarkets, a plea for integrity… We’ve written to the CEOs of the Big Six supermarkets Tesco Sainsbury's Asda Morrisons Aldi Stores UK & @LidlGB asking them to be honest about where their food comes from & #stopfarmwashing Find out more: stopfarmwashing.co.uk


Nice piece by Guy-Singh Watson Wicked Leeks Riverford "As I sat reading Tim’s gentle depiction of the industry I love and the nature it is embedded in, I reflected that I may have sold more veg boxes in the end, but we arrived at a similar place." wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/opinion/forgiv…


There is a crisis facing humanity Wicked Leeks We need to embrace #FoodSystems that are truly nature-based, inclusive, livelihood-sustaining, and carbon-capturing. It means making decent, nutritious, planet- and animal-welfare-friendly food 🌱 Pls RT wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/opinion/the-wl…

Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin presents a bold new vision for more ethical, sustainable chicken farms in our new book Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets. Find out more in this piece by Wicked Leeks bit.ly/48FdI3t

“The industry claims we can make animals resistant to disease through gene editing... But a lot of these diseases are stemming from the way in which the animals are farmed” Our Chief Policy Advisor, speaking to Wicked Leeks wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/news/the-preci…