The world of vertical farming has seen a massive uptick in interest over the past decade, as the world grapples with concerns over resource use, farmable area and exploding population growth. While promising, there are still plenty of question marks surrounding the technology, including the diversity of crops one can grow indoors at scale. Newark, […]
Early bird special: turkey for Christmas? You may already be too late to buy one
A shortage of migrant workers, HGV drivers and now carbon dioxide mean you’d better get your order in fast – or try to source an organic boar’s headName: Turkey.Appearance: Bootiful! Continue reading…
How to make panzanella – recipe | Felicity Cloake’s masterclass
The classic Italian bread-and-tomato salad gets a step-by-step guide to perfectionEvery bread-eating culture around the world has as many recipes for using up stale loaves as for bread itself: pain perdu, fattoush, roti curry … Panzanella is one of Ita…
‘Ecofeminism is about respect’: the activist working to revolutionise west African farming
Mariama Sonko is an unstoppable force who continued her work even when she was ostracised by her community in SenegalOutside Mariama Sonko’s home in the Casamance region of southern Senegal pink shells hang on improvised nets that will be placed in man…
A moment that changed me: the first time I foraged in a supermarket bin
A conversation about discarded pastries led to the bin dive that made me a food waste evangelist. During the pandemic, the company I now run distributed 90,000 meals to those who needed themThe first time I stuck my head in a wheelie bin behind the Tes…
Quality Street’s new sweet proves popular
Shoppers sampling brand’s first white chocolate sweet welcome break with traditionChristmas is, above all, a time for tradition. The smallest changes can send shockwaves which disrupt longstanding routines and cause worse friction than a post-dinner ga…
Animal Alternative makes a platform play in the growing market of cultured meat
Traditional meat production is about as far from a sustainable process as we’ve got, but our chances of getting everyone to give up “real” meat are lean. Animal Alternative is one of several companies looking to make meat indistinguishable from the animal-based kind using bioreactors and cultured cells, and it aims to empower local producers […]
Verdi aims to give farmers granular control over crop irrigation
Verdi, which launched today at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield, refers to its smart valve clusters as “swarms.” The term denotes the kind of high-density implementation the company is looking to roll out in farms across North America. Retrofitted with existing irrigation technology, the aim of its system is to give farmers more control over the irrigation […]
The iPhone 13 Pro goes to Disneyland
This year’s iPhone review goes back to Disneyland for the first time in a couple of years for, uh, obvious reasons. I’m happy to report that the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 performed extremely well and the limited testing I was able to do on the iPhone mini and iPhone 13 Pro Max showed […]
Which are the best vinegars to improve my cooking? | Kitchen aide
A slug from one of those bottles lurking in the back of the cupboard could be all you need to make your dinner burst with flavour• Got a culinary dilemma? Email feast@theguardian.comI have several varieties of vinegar in my cupboard, but apart from sal…