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More than 26,000 join UK’s land army to pick fruit and vegetables at farms across Britain as they face a season without workforce Fruitful jobs, HOPs and Concordia joined forces to drum up a national land army These providers claim to have been ‘overwhelmed’ by the ‘massive’ response Overseas workers are prevented from entering the … Read more
Ocado chairman and former M&S boss Lord Rose has called for a national effort to mobilise tens of thousands of British workers to prevent seasonal fruit and vegetables rotting in the fields. Rose called on young people and university students to volunteer their services and be ready to start later this month when the first … Read more
Princess Eugenie delivers boxes of fresh fruit and vegetables to NHS ‘heroes’ at Hammersmith Hospital to thank them for ‘everything they do’ Princess Eugenie, 29, has delivered fresh fruit and vegetables to NHS workers Took to Instagram account to share series of snaps showing the care packages Also thanked those on the front line and … Read more
Thousands of bags of fresh fruit and vegetables are being lined up ready to be delivered to frontline doctors and nurses fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Lidl is giving away the bags for free to NHS workers, handing them over to staff at hospitals across Britain after teaming up with the Royal Voluntary Service. Photographs showed … Read more
The strawberry blossom has just started to appear on Christine Snell’s farm, turning her corner of Herefordshire into a riot of colour and heralding the arrival of spring. In exactly six weeks, the endless sea of yellow and white flowers will have been replaced by hundreds of thousands of berries, each turning slowly red in … Read more
A Cabinet minister today called for British workers to ‘mobilise’ to help pick fruit and vegetables on British farms over the summer amid fears that a shortage of seasonal workers could bump up food prices. Environment Secretary George Eustice said that he was already talking to farmers about filling a ‘gap’ in the European temporary … Read more
Why you need to wash your fruit and vegetables with SOAP: Virologist confirms that COVID-19 can survive on fresh supermarket produce just like any other surface Timothy Newsome is an associate professor at the University of Sydney He specialises in infectious disease and viruses, so is interested in COVID-19 Mr Newsome said that ‘every surface … Read more
Farmers call for sacked hospitality workers to be turned into army of Land Girls – and boys – to help pick fruit and veg because travel ban means they have lost thousands of foreign workers Travel bans mean farmers have lost the help they need to work in the fields British Summer Fruits fears produce … Read more
Mother shares her clever trick for getting her kids to eat more fruit and vegetables – and all you need are stickers An ingenious mother has come up with a way to feed children healthy produce Jane Stine bought a range of bright stickers related to her kids favourite shows The Thailand-based parent then sticks … Read more
From horse meat in beef burgers to the threat of chlorinated chicken, Britain has had its fair share of food scares over the past decade. According to data from the Food Standards Agency, a third of us now have serious concerns about the safety of what we eat. Top of that list of concerns are pesticides … Read more