Bens Blog
26 Nov 2020
Good Business
By Greg Morgan. Little steps in the right direction I joined Ben’s in 2013 and never looked...
MORE 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 ...
MORE 08 Jul 2020
Churchtown moves towards wilder farming
Bold changes are coming to Churchtown Farm – for twenty five plus years, principle supplier...
MORE 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...
MORE 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...
MORE 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...
MORE 01 Feb 2019
Plastics Update
As a business, we’re always on the lookout for ways to reduce our inclusion of single...
MORE 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...
MORE 12 Nov 2018
Feeling Festive – our first Christmas brochure is here.
This year, we’ve gone all out and embarked on our very first Christmas brochure. We s...
MORE 22 Oct 2018
Stop picking on farmers
Does anyone else feel that since the release a few week’s ago of the UN Intergovernme...
MORE 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 ...
MORE 13 Mar 2018
Being realistic about bacon
I’m probably shooting myself in the foot drawing attention to ‘Yes, bacon really is killing...
MORE 15 Feb 2018
Two very different Bakewells
The news is full of links between so called ‘ultra-processed’ food and cancer, with another...
MORE 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 ...
MORE 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...
MORE 28 Nov 2017
Festive goodies
Without the stress of making thousands of organic mince pies for the Riverford veg boxes, w...
MORE 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...
MORE 10 Oct 2017
Prices and provenance
Pass the butter please – if you’re lucky enough to have any. Now that we’ve all accep...
MORE 01 Sep 2017
The peril of wellness diets
The other summer food news that won’t go away seems to have been around the perils of so-ca...
MORE 01 Sep 2017
Organic or not, food is more than just a commodity
It might just be me but the summer news season seems to have been particularly weak, with t...
MORE 18 Aug 2017
The real problem behind Southern Salad’s demise
I talked last week on the blog about food security and how the fall in the pound, post Brex...
MORE 11 Aug 2017
Why we need to dig potatoes
One thing all Watsons have in common, despite loving our food, is that we don’t like to spe...
MORE 04 Aug 2017
The chicken or the egg? Either way it’s a scandal
Did you know that the average chicken has more room in the fridge or oven than it ever did ...
MORE 28 Jul 2017
No chlorine chickens here
I’ve spent twelve months not mentioning politics (in general) and BREXIT (in particular) bu...
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