Tagged as Pesticides

If pesticides are designed to kill all bugs, imagine what do to humans. Organic choices are kinder to you and the earth - small changes make a big difference.

• The True Cost of Non-Organic Food

  It’s an all-too familiar question: “Why is organic food more expensive?” But, have you ever considered the alternative to that? Guest writer Lizzie Rivera looks deeper...

• Hero Stories - Mr Organic

  Mr Organic believes in a more conscious and organic way of living, to leave the planet in a better way than we found it, for generations to come. Everyone is invited to get involved, get creative, think fresh and make positive little steps towards a delicious, exciting future.

• Hero Stories - Clipper Tea

  Fiercely committed to organic and natural ingredients, Clipper Teas has long-standing, direct relationships with its organic tea estate partners. The brand only works with estates who use natural alternatives to pesticides and chemical fertilisers to produce the highest-quality, natural tea leaves. Guided by its organic principles, Clipper tea bags are also always unbleached, non-GM and fully biodegradable.

• Hero Stories - Beet It

  Growing organic beets can be tough, but James White Drinks is steadily achieving its ambition to turn East Anglia purple! Lawrence Mallinson, Managing Director, tells us more...

• Why we should all be 'rebugging' the planet

  In the new book 'Rebugging The Planet', author Vicki Hird explores the remarkable things that insects and other invertebrates do - and why we need to love them more. In this blog post, Vicki tells us more about her book and why it is so important that we do more to help save these crucial critters...

• ARC 2031 Exhibition Studio

  From bats to hedgehogs, butterflies to bumblebees, iconic species of British wildlife could face extinction within a decade if action is not taken to halt their decline.
  Welcome to the ARC 2031 exhibition, bringing together for the first time ten precious native species most at risk of vanishing from our shores in the next ten years, for the most part, due to the industrialisation of food production and, with that, the excessive use of harmful pesticides.

  23 - 25 September 2021 (10:00am - 4:00pm)

  6 Denman Place, Ham Yard Village, Ham Yard, Soho, London, W1D 7DT

• Go Organic...Made Simple!

  Want to find out how easy it is to swap to organic? Just keep reading...!

• Final Call For Endangered Native Wildlife

  ARC 2031 research reveals extinction catastrophe waiting to happen on our shores. A shocking 40% of our 1 million insect species are teetering on the brink, and human activities are to blame. From bats to hedgehogs, butterflies to bumblebees, iconic species of British wildlife could face extinction within a decade if action is not taken to halt their decline.

• Organic Spotlight: de Le Cuona

  We are happy to welcome de Le Cuona to the OTB. A globally renowned purveyor of luxury fabric for interiors who use only the finest natural fibres – flax, cashmere, wool, alpaca - who have created a full range of top-quality, totally organic linen with a high aesthetic and design value and that is beneficial to health and the environment.

• Ethical, Sustainable & Organic Beauty: discovering Wild Beauty by Rhug Estate

  Following on the article 'Clean beauty or dirty marketing tricks: How can you tell if a beauty brand lives up to its green credentials?' we are now discovering Wild Beauty and how the brand lives up to its green credentials!

• Organic Spotlight: Coombe Farm

  Coombe Farm Organic, based in the beautiful Somerset countryside, was set up as a form of farm diversification five years ago. With sustainability at its heart, the team have taken what was a by-product of the successful organic dairy farm, male calves, and by careful breeding, created award-winning beef.

• Earth Day - how organic farming helps to restore our Earth

  “As the world returns to normal we can’t go back to business as usual,” boldly states the Earth Day website. It’s theme, this year, is: “To Restore our Earth”.
  In this article by Lizzie Rivera (Live Frankly) we explore how organic farming plays an important role in restoring our Earth.