English fruit grower Alan Firmin Ltd has scooped top prize as the overall best of Tesco’s apple and pear growers, at the retailer’s prestigious UK top-fruit producer awards and conference held in Kent this week.

As part of the Year of Food and Farming, New Covent Garden Market (NCGM) is giving children from seven local schools the chance to learn about food, farming and the countryside.

A week after Taypack walked away from Asda, the UK’s largest ready meals supplier is abandoning a contract with Marks & Spencer as Taypack reports new customer advances.

The Organic Trade Board (OTB) was launched at the Food and Drink Innovation Network’s Annual UK Organics Summit in Birmingham this week, following a preliminary announcement by Organic Farm Foods’ md Adam Wakeley at the Re:fresh Conference last week.

Campaign group School Food Matters (SFM), partner of the Year of Food and Farming, will present its vision to the local community on Friday May 16, from 9.30am-12.30pm.

Now in its seventh year, British Food Fortnight (BFF) will run from September 20 to October 5 this year and is set to focus, for the first time, on public procurement.