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Nature Friendly Farming Network and 3 others

Jun 25

Eat nuts / Support the Kayapó / Save the Forest @landworkersalliance, Roddick Foundation, Hodmedod & Kayapó coop COOBÂ-Y have forged a new alliance to bring wild-harvested nuts direct from Brazil's Kayapó people to the UK. Buy nuts now hodmedods.co.uk/nuts 📸Simone Giovine AFP

Intercropping, why grow more than one crop at once? Diversity, resilience, margin. #intercropping #companioncropping #notill #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #diversity

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We've got another exciting job role to share this week - in partnership with

@jrf_uk

we're hiring a Project Manager for the Progressive Landowners Platform. 🗓️Apply by 14 July! Find out more: realfarming.org/news-features/

The Landworkers' Alliance and 7 others

New funding for small-scale food and farming - please share👉 🚨 APPLICATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY 7 JULY 🚨 How to apply: realfarming.org/programmes/lea #agroecology #localsupplychains #communitybusiness #socialimpact #ethicalfunding #farmingwithnature #localfood #sustainablefarming

The Landworkers' Alliance and 9 others

We're #hiring a Social Investment Programme Manager - please take a look and share with anyone you think might be interested... 👉 realfarming.org/news-features/ #socialinvestment #socialimpact #communitybusiness

Jun 24

Inspired by traditional Gujarati dhebra, a bread typically made with millet flour, this delicious and nutritious recipe from Sam Hamrebtan uses yellow pea and fava bean flour, milled from British-grown pulses. hodmedods.co.uk/blogs/recipes/ #pulseflour #lovepulses #beansishow

landworkersalliance.org.uk

Jun 21

🫘 @_easybean love pulses as much as we do and are on a mission to create delicious new ways to enjoy beans, peas and lentils. They use our pulse flours to make delicious crackers, perfect with dips or even on their own as a sustaining snack. hodmedods.co.uk/collections/pu #lovepulses

Reading with interest

report on animal feed solutions- how and why to replace soy imports linked to global deforestation with homegrown legumes landworkersalliance.org.uk/new-report-soy Its a biggie!

NEW LWA REPORT MODELS OPPORTUNITIES AND TRADE OFFS OF ELIMINATING SOY FROM PIG AND POULTRY FEED -...

We are a union of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers with a mission to improve the livelihoods of our members and create a better food and land-use system for everyone.

Eating more pulses and cutting intensive pig and chicken farming by 80 per cent would cut UK demand for soy from fragile forest ecosystems, a new report has found. wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/news/eating-pu

wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk

Eating pulses and cutting down on pork ‘would help save rainforest’

Eating more pulses and cutting intensive pig and chicken farming by 80 per cent would cut UK demand for soy from fragile forest ecosystems, a new report has found.

Amy has been speaking today at #Westminster for the #SoyNoMore launch event, sharing our story of #SoyFree #PastureFed pig & poultry #farming 🐖🐓

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Jun 19

1/ Today we launch our new report ‘#SoyNoMore’ at Westminster

There is an urgent need to move away from soy in UK livestock feed

This report models the trade-offs and opportunities of increasing UK pulse production and transitioning to soy-free pig & poultry farming

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Jun 19

1/ Today we launch our new report ‘#SoyNoMore’ at Westminster 🐖 There is an urgent need to move away from soy in UK livestock feed 🐓 This report models the trade-offs and opportunities of increasing UK pulse production and transitioning to soy-free pig & poultry farming

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Hey,

! Every spring for nigh on 10 years Warwick Uni have put out a press release saying they’re very close to launching a British baked bean… lovely story! Come Autumn, nothing. Whereas, for close to 10 years, we’ve been selling British baked beans… 🤷🏻‍♂️ Here’s a 🧵

Grain Lab and 6 others

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We—

—have a history of celebrating #beans &

has been a big part of our education. We gave them gold in #bbcfoodawards in 2017. And these were our most listened to progs of 2022: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00 & bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00

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Barry Topp

@ciderbarry

Jun 17

Come on @BBCFarmingToday @SheilaDillon as well doing a bit to promote British baked beans grown by our farmers, cooked and canned in the U.K. A truly home grown product!……a tip for you,prefer them spicy,stir in a couple of squirts of @Sriracha_FG sauce when heating

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Jun 17

We love this smoked quinoa, chickpea and greens salad! The earthy flavours of smoked quinoa and chickpeas contrast wonderfully with the fresh spicy pesto. Use any local seasonal greens and finish with creamy tahini, oat yoghurt and crunchy nuts & seeds. hodmedods.co.uk/blogs/recipes/

Credit to the late Colin Leakey: hodmedods.co.uk/blogs/news/col “Hodmedod’s canned Red Haricot Beans are the Stop variety of Phaseolus vulgaris bean bred by Colin for suitability for production in the UK.” Colin wanted to call it the fartless bean.

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Jun 16

Hey, @BBCNews! Every spring for nigh on 10 years Warwick Uni have put out a press release saying they’re very close to launching a British baked bean… lovely story! Come Autumn, nothing. Whereas, for close to 10 years, we’ve been selling British baked beans…

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This🧵flags v imp Qs for the future of farming. We need to support farmers to develop & share seed diversity, for food to adapt to climate change. But seed laws & public funds tend to support agribusiness corps to develop just a few varieties & to fiercely guard IPRs & profits.

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Jun 16

Replying to @Hodmedods

But we have a system of legislation around seed & intellectual property that, though originally intended to protect farmers & plant breeders, now cedes excessive control to corporations &, we believe, stands in the way of the adaptive, agroecological systems we do urgently need.

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SWT Farm Wildlife Advice

@SWTWildFarms

Jun 17

Less than 1 week! Still a few places , please book in advance

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Calling all farmers & landowners! Join us on Friday for the @SWTWildFarms midsummer meetup. Our speakers will explore the links between sustainable food production and a thriving natural environment. Book now! suffolkwildlifetrust.org/news/farmland-

On Monday, my

colleague Martin Bowman will be presenting at this event at #Westminster to set out the case for #soy-free pig and poultry #farming in the UK. Use the link below to invite your MP! #SoyNoMore

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Jun 14

On June 19the we're hosting an event in Westminster to launch our new report '#SoyNoMore: Breaking Away From Soy in UK Pig and Poultry Farming'

Invite your MP to join us and support a transition away from #soy in pig and poultry feed

agroecology.eaction.online/soynomore-parl

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