Bens Blog
14 Oct 2024
A desert of farms with no name
You’re probably aware of Riverford’s (and Guy’s) campaign against, so called, fake farms. P...
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12 Aug 2024
Trouble at organic mill
Industry insiders have been predicting it since last autumn, but it’s finally coming home t...
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02 Aug 2022
August News
Ben debates bacon, shares a polytunnel pesto and his lack of trust in Truss – it̵...
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08 Jun 2022
Fishy tales – saltimbocca fish fingers
Unquestionably, the best thing would be a ten-year moratorium on catching anything but that...
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21 Feb 2022
February News
Green Ketchup, A Ham with No Name, and Porridge Traumas. No, this isn’t a Dr. Seuss b...
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19 Aug 2021
Booze, schmooze and Smokehouse news
With wine sales continuing to go uppity up-up and it becoming obvious that what’s good for ...
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08 Jan 2021
Let’s get smoky
By Ben Watson. BBQ & Ice Cream Work has started on ‘Harry’s Smokehouse’ and...
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26 Nov 2020
Good Business
By Greg Morgan. Little steps in the right direction I joined Ben’s in 2013 and never looked...
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17 Nov 2020
The challenges of ‘local’ food
By Guy Singh-Watson Making a living from growing veg even on a medium scale is challenging ...
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08 Jul 2020
Churchtown moves towards wilder farming
Bold changes are coming to Churchtown Farm – for twenty five plus years, principle supplier...
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01 Jul 2019
Bottoms Up! Ben’s Booze News for July.
When it rains it pours. I’d just got back from my wine jolly to Sicily when the phone rings...
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02 May 2019
Ben’s Wine & Tapas Booze News
Our first ‘tell us what you think so you can help us chose which new wines to stock’ tastin...
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01 Feb 2019
Less plastic is fantastic – NEW beeswax food wraps
As a business, we’re always on the lookout for solutions to tackle the single use pla...
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01 Feb 2019
Plastics Update
As a business, we’re always on the lookout for ways to reduce our inclusion of single...
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07 Dec 2018
Christmas 2018: Mince Pies and good palm fats – an update
With our mince pies flying off the shelves at this time of year, we inevitably face questio...
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22 Oct 2018
Stop picking on farmers
Does anyone else feel that since the release a few week’s ago of the UN Intergovernme...
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15 May 2018
Raise a glass of English Fizz
There’s a bit of a do on this weekend – we’ll be open as usual for celebrators ...
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13 Mar 2018
Being realistic about bacon
I’m probably shooting myself in the foot drawing attention to ‘Yes, bacon really is killing...
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15 Feb 2018
Two very different Bakewells
The news is full of links between so called ‘ultra-processed’ food and cancer, with another...
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15 Jan 2018
Ben’s take on Veganuary
Veganuary will be over soon but, let’s not kid ourselves, things aren’t going to return to ...
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15 Jan 2018
The minefield that is food packaging
As a business we are constantly striving to do our bit to cut carbon emissions and reduce w...
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28 Nov 2017
Festive goodies
Without the stress of making thousands of organic mince pies for the Riverford veg boxes, w...
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30 Oct 2017
The grass is greener – or is it?
It seems ‘grass fed’ is becoming more and more of a buzzword – used at every opportun...
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