I love that Waitrose is trialling a large range of packaging free products, it is a shame it is only a very limited trial in an Oxford store. Hopefully the outlook for this is positive and people will enjoy getting cereals, pasta, coffee and a host of Waitrose and their suppliers products in less packaging… Read More More packaging reduction news.

Good chatting to the lovely people at Old Hall Farm, great to meet their new lady butcher and hearing about their zero plastic, local produce, and rare breed ambitions…. As I travel around I find more and more farms are starting to sell direct, some on a small scale others like Old Hall Farm are… Read More Great ambitions

So we are always looking at ways of reducing out environmental impact. We have used Splosh products before with success so we are now looking at their dishwaher tablets. We are cautious as we live in a very hard water area and we have struggled to get a mainstream dishwasher product that gives us consistent… Read More Trying something new

98% meat sausages (pork and apple) from Old Hall Farm Woodton. Lovely sausages and a reduction in our plastic consumption due to the non-plastic tray they sit on. Topped of by bottled, yes bottled cream and banana… Yum!

The reality behind sustainable palm oil. Lack of regulation, licence breaches, deforestation and indigenous people ignored, this is government backed Malaysian. ‘sustainable palm’ production. We really need to rid ourselves of this uneccessary product created out of the greed from big business. Soon there will be no habitat left! https://m.malaysiakini.com/news/475322

We @livinggentler towers were really happy to see a luxury brand retailer taking its evironmental credentials more seriously. This is great news what are other retailers doing? https://www.retail-week.com/department-stores/selfridges-palm-oil-free-nine-months-ahead-of-target/7031818.article?authent=1

Lovely to have some great raw Jersey milk at home after calling in for some refills at Amwell End Farm.