The production of rice, baked beans and melons in the UK suggests a rosy future for the UK’s food self-sufficiency. But, asks Michael Barker, are such crops a sustainable solution or just an exercise in what’s possible?

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When Andrew Jackson and his partner Amanda moved into their new-build home in Beverley in May 2021, they inherited the kind of blank-canvas garden familiar to many: a flat patch of turf, devoid of any

"Dad used to call me a feckless environmentalist,” Hugh Crossley says warmly of his father, the 3rd Baron Somerleyton. “But he was a conservationist in his own way – he’s the reason we have good hedge

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Farmer Martin Hole explains the challenges of farming with wildlife in a protected wetland. Interview: Lorna Maybery