Food and Farming

Mourning the loss of your beloved local shop? With a little help from the Community Shops Network, you can set up and run your own shop and post office...

Idleness usually sees Tom through most of life's trials. But not gardening. Oh no. Nature took one look and ran amok

Member of steering group resigns claiming the Food Standard Agency's (FSA) £500,000 public dialogue on genetically modified (GM) food is ignoring key issues about GM feed and labelling

Add flavour to freshly caught UK fish with these two simple recipe ideas from Nick Fisher's new book, Sea Fishing

Continuing high winter losses in bee colonies is prompting fears about future of hobby beekeeping

Research shows that high street chains using 'dolphin-friendly' claim on tuna tins are misleading customers about damage to other marine wildlife including turtles

Parents urged to wash fruits and vegetables before eating after study finds commonly used pesticides may contribute to ADHD in children

Fun and easy to make, seedbombs can be used to green up hard-to-access urban wasteland or in your garden at home

No-one enjoys supermarket shopping. But kicking the habit requires conviction, as Laura Laker reveals in the first of a new series...

An avid gardener road-tests two brands of peat free compost, and gives you a recipe to make your own

Our national taste for shellfish is leading to exploitation of our shores by criminal gangs, putting human health and fragile environments at risk. Andrew Wasley reports

In an extract from her new book, Geetie Singh tells how her famed gastro pub, the Duke of Cambridge, came to be, and gives Ecologist readers two great recipes to try out

Researchers claim the benefits of combining conservation and food production through organic farming are not enough to make up for the drop in yields

Sylvia uses a team lunch outing as a chance to quiz her colleagues on their views on vegetarianism and eating less meat

UK and other member states expected to fight proposals to bring in compulsory labelling for consumers on novel foods