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• The day I met a proper journalist

  Had I not chosen a career path which had taken me down a bizarre route into a niche avenue of journalism, I would have like to have become a proper writer on a national newspaper. Like John Pilger, perhaps. Or Jay Rayner. Y’know, Jay Rayner. The... Posted Feb 16 2011, 08:48 AM by NufSaid Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: Agriculture, Organic, farming, Celebrities, Food, Television, journalism, TV, Jay Rayner, knorr, marco pierre white [Edit Tags]

• Chewy and viscous

  I promise to blog about the Soil Association conference properly at some point (I’ll be putting my ranting hat on – be warned), but in the meantime I thought I’d share this with you. One of the rather nice perks of going to the SA conference... Posted Feb 14 2011, 05:55 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers Weekly, Soil Association, Organic, Food, chocolate, green and blacks, baking, cakes, recipe [Edit Tags]

• Fighting fire with fire – how farming won’t win friends

  I had several failed attempts at starting a blog before I really got my teeth into writing this one (and I probably only stuck with this because I paid for the domain name and, being northern, I hate seeing money go to waste). It’s not that I lost... Posted May 19 2010, 08:48 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Soil Association, Organic, New Media, Communication, farming, United States, farm, Food, PETA, Richard Keller, Nottingham Forest, Ag Professional, news [Edit Tags]

• Liar, liar, non-organic pants on fire

  Since I started working in agricultural media, I’ve never been particularly impressed with the Soil Association’s often simplistic arguments that organic farming is superior to conventional food production. I had wondered whether the organisation... Posted Apr 21 2010, 04:33 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Agriculture, Soil Association, Organic, Communication, farming, NFU, Politics, Food, Government, food production, food security [Edit Tags]

• Throwing insults to spread the message

  I was in Birmingham today, the (current) home of Cadbury’s chocolate, one of my favourite modern buildings in the country: and the location of this year’s Soil Association conference. There’s been a few articles in the press over the... Posted Feb 03 2010, 11:00 PM by NufSaid Filed under: Farmers, Agriculture, Conference, Soil Association, Birmingham, Twitter, Organic [Edit Tags]