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Grow your own food in January. Photo: Lyndsay Maiden, Cardiff Friends of the Earth

Jobs for January

Well it has been a slightly wild January, the weather has been wet and windy causing some damage to structures. It's worth checking your plot regularly to make sure there's no wind damage on the site. On warmer days you can:

The allotment in January.

The allotment in May.

The allotment in July.

The allotment in August.

Plants under cloches at the allotment.

Cardiff's Real Food Market

Food and farming in the UK faces a stark choice. Do we continue to put profit first? Or adopt practices that safeguard the future of what we eat and those who provide it.

If we let them the Government, biotech industry and supermarkets will decide for us. It's time to put your foot down.

Local Food at Cardiff's Riverside Market on Taff Embankment. Photo: Lindsay Maiden, Cardiff Friends of the Earth.

Food is traveling further than ever, often hundreds of miles from where it was produced to where is was consumed. Small businesses, family farms, local abattoirs are all going out of business as a result.