Our Yorkshire Farm’s Amanda Owens has revealed her good looks are down to ‘fakery’ and ‘wearing big underwear’. The mother-of-nine, 45, who runs the 2,000-acre tenant farm in Upper Swaledale with her husband Clive, 65, appeared on This Morning today where she revealed how she stays effortlessly composed and always looks good even when doing … Read more
Millions of people have campaigned to protect British bees over the past few years. It’s a subject close to our hearts. One MP told me he got more letters from constituents about bees than on any other issue – including health and education combined. Yet it’s only recently that politicians have acted to protect them. … Read more
It’s the smell I remember. The stench permeated everything in the hotel: the lobby, the bedrooms and the bar. I was in California visiting a tomato farm, making a TV programme, Global Harvest, for the BBC about food production, and staying in this lovely, genteel old hotel – which reeked. On the last day I … Read more
The Dutch government has ordered the closure of mink fur farms amid fears that they could act as ‘reservoirs’ for COVID-19 after two workers caught the disease. Nine infected farms will be closed from tomorrow, with thousands of mink — whose glossy coats are prized for fur clothing — to be culled in the cautionary … Read more