The conscious kitchen

Living well for a healthy planet

Every day we collectively bin around a million bananas, 360,000 oranges and 33,000 apples, helping to make fruit the fifth biggest contributor to home food waste, according to the campaigning waste ch

Our green guru Wendy Graham suggests some planet-friendly alternatives to this kitchen staple. TIN foil may well be a kitchen staple, but it’s not exactly the most planet-friendly one. Making it can b

If you want to freeze a glut, briefly blanch broad beans in salted boiling water for 2 mins before draining and tipping into ice water to cool quickly. Will keep frozen for up to three months. When re

Don’t listen to the chatter. It’s all nonsense. Yes, term has started, the evenings are shorter, and I saw advent calendars in the supermarkets too. But it’s not the end of the summer. Not yet. And ce

I’ve been growing organically for many years and it all goes hand-in-hand with having a wildlife garden. The vegetable garden is important to me for the flavour of fresh food and for knowing what has