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Does anyone actually know how to eat in season?
Climate change is moving harvests across Europe and testing one of our favourite sustainability rules: “buy seasonal”. When I think of eating seasonally, I think of tomatoes in summer, pumpkin in autumn and clementines at Christmas. But if climate change is causing the seasons themselves to shift, I wonder whether the rules I learnt as a child still hold, and between ultra-techy greenhouses, advan
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Pumpkin cake for when the nights draw in
By late October, pumpkins are grinning from doorsteps half the world over, and it’s easy to forget they were food long before they were decoration. Good food, too, and one of the best keepers there is: harvested in autumn, a pumpkin will sit in a cool corner of the kitchen for months without losing a thing. Just one will stretch to soups, purées, roasts and, when the day calls for something
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A mango that actually tastes of mango: Miguel Páez, from fruit trader to farmer
Miguel Páez spent more than twenty years buying and selling fruit before he started growing it. Today he farms avocados and mangoes with his son, also called Miguel, on the family farm, Cortijo Salobreña. Having worked both sides, as trader and as grower, he talks about what hardly anyone says out loud: why supermarket mangoes so often smell and taste of nothing, why they’re picked green on
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Legalise more toxic pesticides on our food? The EU is deciding now
The EU is about to make it easier to use hazardous pesticides on food crops. Last year, the European Commission presented the Feed and Food Omnibus, a single proposal that changes several food and farming laws in one package. They claimed it would “simplify” pesticide legislation to give biocontrol products (pest control based on living organisms or natural substances instead of synthe
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Capturing the sky on earth
We talk about carbon as an air problem. But a big share of the CO₂ that’s heating the atmosphere today didn’t come out of a smokestack or a car—it came out of the soil. The good news: regenerative agriculture can put it back, and the key isn’t burying carbon, but giving the soil back the life that fixes it. Download research When we think about the climate crisis, we look up at the sky: smoke plum
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How can we help birds in summer?
Summer used to mean long light and birdsong at dawn. This year, across Europe, it has meant something closer to a survival test, for people and for the birds sharing our skies, hedgerows and wetlands. The mechanics are simple enough. Extreme heat dries out vegetation until forests and scrubland become kindling, and once wind and drought join in, fires spread faster than anyone can contain them. Wh
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Why is Europe burning more intensely? The end of the conspiracies.
This summer, we are watching the fields of the farmers we work with burn. We are also seeing the conversation catch fire, both in political debates and at family gatherings. We are putting the data on the table to understand what is really behind all this smoke. In context Last week, a fire broke out in Vall d’Uixó (Castellón, Spain). In four days, when we began this investigation, it had bu
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Watermelon: The Star of Summer Salads
Watermelon is a quintessential summer fruit, refreshing and sweet. While it makes a perfect dessert, for the month of August, we suggest it as the base for your salads. Not only can the pulp be used raw or cooked, but the seeds and skin can also enhance the flavor of your dishes. Here are different recipes you can make to combine ingredients and create salads as inspiration strikes. WatermelonR
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