Our Articles

Welcome to our blog, where you'll find lots of organic-focused articles, competitions and events.

• Get stuck in to Real Bread Week

  It’s Real Bread Week, 23 February to 3 March 2019, the annual global celebration of buying additive-free loaves from local bakeries and baking your own at home. Real Bread coordinator Chris Young shows how choosing organic supports the campaign.

• Organic food - a question of taste and nutrition

  There are many reasons to love organic food. It’s a way of farming that works with nature, using real ingredients, with animals free to forage and graze on land that’s home to more wildlife. A little-known fact though, is that organic food is also nutritionally different. We look at how organic food has more of the good stuff and talk to two top chefs about the all-important question of taste.

• Thomasina Miers: organic is a no brainer for me

  We spoke to chef and writer Thomasina Miers about her approach to organic both as a busy working mother of three young daughters and when sourcing ingredients for her business.

• Understanding meat labels

  Next time you dash around your local supermarket aisles or pop in to your high street butcher to collect a joint for Sunday lunch, don’t forget to check the label or ask how the meat was reared.

• 9 ways to reduce your food waste

  If someone gave you £700 to spend on food you’d be pretty chuffed, wouldn’t you? You could take care of the grocery bills for weeks! But, amazingly, this is exactly how much food the average UK family throws away each year.

• ‘Tis the season for winter veg

  From delicious soups to fragrant curries, we naturally choose meals that are warming and satisfying at this time of year - and luckily mother nature has given us plenty of winter veggies to cook with. Katie Roche shares her love for six of the best that will give you a warm glow this winter. Read on for recipe inspiration and advice on how to store your organic veg to keep it fresh for longer.

• How to shop organic without the plastic

  A zero waste lifestyle and eating organic should, in theory, go hand in hand - after all, both promote looking after our environment and have potential health benefits. In practice it can be tricky but with a few changes to your shopping habits it is possible. Kate Arnell shares her five top tips.

• Meet the organic farmers

  Ever wondered what it’s like to be at the heart of organic farming? Organic producers - the people who grow our fruit and veg, look after our livestock and make homes for our wildlife and pollinators - are incredible! We get to know the faces behind your organic foods, find out why they’re passionate about organic and why they love life as a certified organic farmer.

• 8 ways to make organic more affordable

  Although the benefits of organic food are pretty priceless, there are many ways to eat better for less. Katie Roche takes us through some of the best ways to enjoy organic, no matter how tight your budget.

• How to eat more greens (and enjoy it!)

  One in 20 Brits have not eaten a green vegetable in almost one month, according to our recent poll, despite them providing a number of important health benefits. In this article we give you some top tips for sneaking organic greens into some delicious recipes.

• Why I buy organic

  More and more of us are enjoying organic with around 84% of UK homes now choosing to buy it. To find out more about what's driving this increase in demand, writer Kathy Slack interviewed three Instagram sensations with very different approaches to food.

• How organic food can lift our mood

  New research commissioned by us at Organic UK has shed light on the factors which have the greatest ability to perk up our mood. The study reveals it is the simple, everyday pleasures which really make a difference to our day, with grand gestures and validation on social media paling in comparison.