Soil Association

  • My Viewpoint: Every pupil in the country should get good, healthy food

    My Viewpoint: Every pupil in the country should get good, healthy food

    NOW THAT David Cameron has admitted the value of free school meals it’s time to push for every pupil in the country to get good, healthy food, says Rich Watts. We’ve come a long way since Turkey Twizzlers but the battle… Read More

  • News review

    IT APPEARS THAT all 19 government requests for bans of GM crop cultivation are expected to go unchallenged by biotech companies, paving the way for two thirds of the EU’s farmland and population to remain GM-free. According to information it… Read More

  • Organic food on the up again – but how far can it go?

    DESPITE STRONG sales growth, work is needed to exploit the potential of a sector whose market share remains small. The latest annual retail sales figures have the Soil Association popping open the organic champagne.   The Nielsen figures, for the 52… Read More

  • News review

    Kids’ meals league table Jamie’s Italian has come top of the class in the Soil Association’s latest assessment of the food available to children in 21 of the high street’s leading restaurant chains. The company scored 64 out of 80;… Read More

  • Making the most of marketing

    JUST THINK about the last big purchase you made and why you chose it – invariably it will lead back to something you’ve read, seen or heard. The same, often subconscious, thinking affects our eating habits and tapping into this… Read More

  • Healthy progress at Coed Du Hall Hospital

    MUCH HAS been made of the standard of hospital food, but green shoots of improvement are appearing.                   Coed Du Hall, a care home in North Wales, has been awarded the Gold… Read More

  • Sodexo food production manager recognised

    SODEXO FOOD production manager Mark Davidson has been recognised as a Catering Mark Champion at the Soil Association Food for Life Catering Mark Awards. The awards, which took place at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London earlier this month, celebrate… Read More

  • If we don’t take care of our soil, we won’t be able to feed people in 50 years

    APPEARING ON Desert Island Disks, Helen Browning, the head of the Soil Association, explained that: “We’ve already degraded about 40 per cent of our soils internationally, and that’s happening here [in the UK] as well. If we don’t take care… Read More

  • North Bristol NHS Trust wins award for its sustainable food chain

    THIS YEAR’S NHS Sustainability Award for Food went to North Bristol NHS Trust for the commitment they showed to providing local, sustainable food to their patients.                   The trust worked with their… Read More

  • Bournemouth and Poole named as UK’s first Sustainable Fish City


    THE MAJORITY of restaurants and catering outlets across Bournemouth and Poole have pledged to use fish species from the Marine Conservation Society’s green-rated list of most sustainable species, and avoid using those from the endangered and red-rated list.    … Read More