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Valerio, Carlo and Kostas are the Italian trio behind Mr Organic.  Valerio’s grandfather and father grew tomatoes, and when Valerio took over, he converted the farm to organic.  To celebrate our chopped tomatoes going down in price, Carlo sent us some photos of last year’s tomato crop from one of their farms in Pontinia, about 40 miles South from Rome.  [...]

We recently made friends with FARM-Africa. We have a lot in common. Like us, FARM-Africa believe in sustainable farming, natural and organic agriculture, and human rights. FARM-Africa help alleviate poverty and hunger by supporting lots of small farming families all across Africa.  They help by giving grants and advice, and build networks for knowledge sharing, so farmers can [...]

The simple things in life are often the best.  So we only have two ingredients in our juices, and nothing else. It’s also why our Ugly Juice is ugly.  No weird colour stabilisers, you see – that would be a third ingredient.  No weird anything, actually, and that goes for our Beepple Juice, too.  Although, [...]

This is nothing to snicker at.  Thousands of people ran the London marathon on Sunday.  Sarah from Cocoa Loco was one of them, and she raised over £2500 for charity. This is Sarah.  She started Cocoa Loco in a little converted barn after the success of her ebay truffle business meant the family had to do a [...]

Thank you to everyone who entered our monthly recipe photo competition, making our Lazy Hollandaise-y Asparagus recipe! And especially to our winners… Hazel Rah, Kimberley Pendleton, and Sheffield Scenestar       So now onto next month’s recipe! Try out the Gorgeous Pink & Green Salad, find out how here – http://www.abelandcole.co.uk/blog/2012/04/mays-recipe-photo-competition/