Why eat local? What if it isn’t easy? What if the things I want aren’t available? What’s the point? Alison and I have both considered these questions for ourselves and factored them into decisions that we’ve made about how we live our everyday lives.
How, when you’ve got limited money, no spare time and family who are used to eating what they eat… How when you can’t find alternatives, don’t have the room to grow it yourself and don’t have the headspace… How do you get out of supermarkets? In this, our Guide to Getting Out of Supermarkets episode, we’ll give you a stack of practical ideas (from us and from our supporters) that’ll change things up.
Piper’s Farm was founded in 1989 by Peter Grieg and his wife, Henri. It’s just north of Exeter in Devon, Britain, and today it is run by their son Will and his partner, Abby, in a multi-generational partnership and succession achievement.
Before we read the books that our guest today, Chris Smaje, wrote, we knew we didn’t want a world where fake food, food manufactured in factories was what we ate as a society. We didn’t believe that protein made in stainless steel vats could give our minds, bodies, souls and communities what they need to survive and thrive. But what we didn’t know, is that manufactured protein, fake food or precision fermentation, however you want to term it, literally will not work.
In this episode I talk to Sir Patrick Holden, head of The Sustainable Food Trust and 50-year farmer and sustainable food activist. You’ll hear us talk about his latest research into how the UK could feed itself using fertiliser/pesticide-free sustainable agriculture (with no grain-fed animals!), the tools to take this global, and how this lifetime campaigner for sustainable animal-involved agriculture feels about lab meat, supermarkets, ground-up change and much more.
In this episode, we dive into the process of fermenting kitchen waste to make into compost and compost tea.
There’s a lot of talk about sustainability, but much of it misses the wisdom that our ancestors have to show us in the ways they farmed and ate for centuries. Hear Andrea and I talk about practical sustainability for all our kitchens in this episode.
I’m trying to take supermarkets 100% out of my life. Listen to why and help hold me accountable here.
