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Your guide to composting
Waste is a human invention. Every other organism on earth operates in cycles. Nothing is discarded, everything is reabsorbed. We opted out of that arrangement somewhere along the way, and our soils are paying for it. Composting is how you opt back in. It transforms organic waste: vegetable peelings, coffee grounds, cardboard, grass clippings, into a nutrient-dense soil amendment that improves stru
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Why doesn’t Europe protect its producers?
There is a complaint that is gaining increasing traction across Europe: what is the point of requiring our farmers to meet increasingly strict labor and environmental standards if they then have to compete on store shelves with products imported from outside Europe, grown under very different conditions? The official response to this imbalance invokes the free market and diplomacy, but the reality
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Apricots in syrup: The anti-waste preserve
You know that feeling. You’ve got a bowl of peaches or apricots on the counter, you’re eating one a day, doing your best, and still somehow they’re ripening faster than you can keep up. This recipe is for that moment. Stone fruit in syrup is one of the simplest preservation techniques around, and it turns the problem into something you’ll actually be glad happened: intensel
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Toxic food, the invisible exposure
385 million cases of acute pesticide poisoning every year. Neurotoxic residues in 100% of urine samples tested in healthy Spanish adults. A pear with 14 pesticides in it — all perfectly legal. The history of industrial agriculture is a history of poisons we defended until we couldn’t anymore. So here is the only question that matters: what are we defending right now that our children will pa
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8 tips to bring back the Buzz
How to turn your home and neighbourhood into a pollinator paradise Up to 90% of flowering plants in Europe depend on bees to reproduce. In France alone, 72% of cultivated food species have some dependence on insect pollinators. In Germany (one of the most studied cases on the continent) the total biomass of flying insects collapsed by three-quarters in just 25 years. So, lose the bees, and the kno
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Lemony Quinoa and Rocket Salad
In May, fast-growing leafy greens like rocket are at their peak in European fields. Building meals around them is one of the simplest ways to eat with the season. The beauty of a salad like this is that it’s not rigid; you can swap in whatever crisp greens you have on hand, like spinach or watercress. It is a straightforward, seasonal dish designed to make the most of what is actually growing righ
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Wanted: Farmers willing to convert to organic
It is hard to think of any sector that has been as persistently questioned as organic farming. Every few weeks, a familiar argument resurfaces: organic cannot feed us, yields are too low, the risks are too high. Organic is often portrayed as well-intentioned, but ultimately impractical: a nice idea that collapses under real-world pressure. But in the surveys we have conducted, the results are clea
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The Pineapple Paradox: Why “Green” Means Ripe in Organic Farming
In the 1700’s, pineapple was a symbol of such extreme wealth that European aristocrats would rent a single pineapple for a night just to display it as a centrepiece at parties (Levy, 2014). It was rarely eaten, and its value lay entirely in its status as a rare, exotic icon of prestige. Today, that luxury era has been replaced by a supermarket myth. We are still obsessed with the pineapple’s
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