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Apr 12, 2024 | 
slowfood.org.uk | Shane Holland
[blog-archive-images]Austin Frerick was never able to confirm the rumour that Jeff and Deb Hansen had “When Pigs Fly” emblazoned on their private jet. But he does a good job at explaining how the power couple from Iowa and their enterprise, Iowa Select Farms, became the 4th biggest pig producer in the US and the toll that has taken on the health and wellbeing of local people and the environment.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
slowfood.org.uk | Shane Holland
[blog-archive-images]Created ten years ago, the Slow Food Awards winners are nominated by the public. Each winner is a champion of good, clean and fair food and represents the very best of their craft.
In addition to the public vote, each national director chooses their Person of the Year, someone who embodies Slow Food values.
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Dec 10, 2023 | 
slowfood.org.uk | Shane Holland
[blog-archive-images]Created ten years ago, the Slow Food Awards winners are nominated by the public. Each winner is a champion of good, clean and fair food and represents the very best of their craft.
In addition to the public vote, each national director chooses their Person of the Year, someone who embodies Slow Food values.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
slowfood.org.uk | Shane Holland
[blog-archive-images]Created ten years ago, the Slow Food Awards winners are nominated by the public. Each winner is a champion of good, clean and fair food and represents the very best of their craft.
In addition to the public vote, each national director chooses their Person of the Year, someone who embodies Slow Food values.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
slowfood.org.uk | Shane Holland
[blog-archive-images]Created ten years ago, the Slow Food Awards winners are nominated by the public. Each winner is a champion of good, clean and fair food and represents the very best of their craft.
In addition to the public vote, each national director chooses their Person of the Year, someone who embodies Slow Food values.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
slowfood.org.uk | Shane Holland
[blog-archive-images]While Britain was an EU member, farmers received money under the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) which was part of the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP. The British government is replacing BPS with the three tier Environmental Land Management scheme, ELMs that promises to pay farmers ‘public money for public goods’. On upland farms direct payments made up between 30% and 60% of farm income.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
slowfood.org.uk | Shane Holland
[blog-archive-images]When urbanites talk about farming the main topics usually are food production and the beauty of the countryside – or the increasing lack thereof. What’s rarely discussed are farm finances, isn’t that for the individual farmer to work out? Not quite. Since Brexit, farming and farmers in Britain have to adjust to the most radical changes in decades. Many not only face an uncertain future, their survival is at stake.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
slowfood.org.uk | Shane Holland
Supporting regenerative small farms and artisan producers for our future food system eatTelfit launched in September and we are excited to get going! Having started in 2020 selling produce from our own farm we are reimagining the potential for our farm and surrounding farms that aspire to regenerate and nurture their farms ecosystem. We have launched our website to be the go-to place for people to eat sustainably, healthily and deliciously.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
slowfood.org.uk | Shane Holland
“You know there is an old story in Georgia” a friend Lela tells me as we drive out of Tbilisi, “A Georgian sends their German friend churchkhela as a gift. A few weeks later, they receive a phone call from said friend – “thank you so much for the gift, we loved it!” they declare. “We tried it boiled…which was nice, fried was okay.
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
inkl.com | Shane Holland |John Holland
A descendant of the Irish-born inventor of the modern-day submarine has created a sculpture in his honour, made from recycled airliner parts. John Phillip Holland, who grew up in Co Clare before emigrating to the United States, developed the first modern submarine in the 1870s – a design that was formally commissioned by the US Navy. The aero marine engineer also worked on early flying machine designs. One of the inventor’s descendants is acclaimed Irish industrial designer Shane Holland.
