Category: Columns
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Australian Trade Deal will Decimate British Farmers and Lower Food Quality in the UK
This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on the impact on British farming of the newly signed trade deal with Australia. So, a trade deal has been signed with our furthermost neighbour on the other side of the world! Great news for Australia but bad…
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Brexiteers! Your Country Needs You!
Having moved to Peebles in 2002, ‘Stooriefit’ Bosco Santimano gives us his own take on what he feels is the hot topic of the day. This week farmers in the UK are on the brink of losing all their summer fruit crops due to a massive decrease in numbers of fruit pickers as a direct…
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Sustainable farming methods is the best way forward after the pandemic.
This week Bosco Santimano founder and executive director of social enterprise You Can Cook, shares his thoughts on our knowledge of where and how our food is produced and the far-reaching consequences of not changing our current commercial food production to a more local and sustainable form of farming. In the last few decades humanities…