Food Production
Our unique field to fridge guide plots the development of arable and
livestock products through a series of monthly steps whilst the fast
facts series provides and overview as to the diversity of products derived
from mainstream production. Use the dynamic menu above or click here >> for sitemap.
Follow the incredible journey of food from field to fridge.
This section of the site provides an overview of the seasonality of UK produced food.
Fast facts.
Since the early 1990's, organic farming in the UK has expanded rapidly and by mid 2003 accounted for 4% of the agricultural land area with nearly 4000 farms managing some 720,000 hectares.
Little is wasted when a pig is killed and this explains their popularity in historic times when most homes would have had a pig. If this had been killed in November it would have provided fresh meat until Christmas with ham, bacon and lardie cakes for the rest of the year.
