Posted May 17th, 2012
There is massive value in winning awards. Look at it this way – once you’ve been crowned best of the bunch for your product or service, you can forever preface your company name with ‘award-winning’. Being independently judged to be ahead of the pack sends a powerful message to your potential customers. So, with that in…
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Posted April 5th, 2012
It’s that time of year when the lambs are not the only ones to get in a bit of gamboling practice. Allegedly (and it is only alleged, given the recent chilly turn in the weather) spring has sprung and the annual opening of the cow shed is well known to be met with glee by herds ready…
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Posted December 7th, 2011
Overalls. Not the most flattering of attire at the best of times, but they’re there to do a job and they are a mainstay of the farming world. However one of our licensee’s was unfortunate enough today to have our Certification Manager, Steve Clarkson, walking behind him toting a camera-equipped smartphone when the elements conspired…
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Posted December 7th, 2011
In a world where pretty much everything seems to happen online now, you would expect there to be a wealth of useful content on the practical aspects of organic farming. Somewhere among all those celebrity tantrums on Twitter and videos of cute kittens doing funny things, there really is a wealth of helpful, real world…
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Posted July 14th, 2011
When the National Trust launched its ground-breaking MyFarm project at OF&G-licensed Wimpole Home Farm, in Cambridgeshire, it was with the full expectation that it would open the eyes of thousands of people to what it takes to be a farmer. That is certainly what seems to have happened when hundreds of viewers watched live on…
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Posted July 7th, 2011
It’s a big day for us; National Organic Cereals occupies a great deal of our time and attention throughout each year, all to ensure that it runs smoothly on the day. Today is that day – and so far, so good.
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Posted December 23rd, 2010
When people are panicking about whether they can get their shopping done in time for Christmas and whether that supermarket delivery van will actually get up their icy street, they probably don’t spare much thought for the struggles farmers are going through.
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Posted August 26th, 2010
OF&G licensee, John Hutchings, will be up to his armpits in celebrities right about now. That’s because the hugely popular Chris Evans Breakfast Show, on BBC Radio 2, is going to be broadcast live from one of his fields, on the coast near Looe, Cornwall, tomorrow morning. As of now Mr Evans and his colleagues…
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Posted March 31st, 2010
We finally have the official, ready-to-use version of the new EU organic logo! We’ve been waiting a while and many of our licensees have been on tenterhooks for this, because for new products it needs to be in use by July and that doesn’t leave a lot of lead time. This morning the…
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Posted December 17th, 2009
Last night was a big one for licensee, Jess Vaughan, who featured prominently in BBC2′s Hairy Bikers’ Twelve Days of Christmas. The well-known two wheeled cooks whipped up what they described as one of their best ever dishes on a makeshift kitchen in one of Jess’s Gloucestershire fields. And why were they there? “It’s the…
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