Looking for that perfect Christmas gift for that hard-to-please relative?
Well, look no further. Let me introduce you to our limited edition Love Nature brand of extra-virgin rapeseed oil.
We have produced 2,800 bottles from 3-4 tonnes of oil seed rape grown on the RSPB's Hope Farm.
With its distinctive, nutty taste it is suitable for frying, roasting, dressing of drippings. Why not put some of this yellowy elixir in a bowl and do a taste test against some of other brands. Love Nature will win every day. That's a promise!
We have produced a single batch from this year's harvest so it is a bit like a single estate coffee - exclusive and just a little decadent.
But at £4.99 a bottle it's at a price you can afford.
It is bound to add flavour to any dish (cooked properly). And as it has come from Hope Farm, you can eat in the knowledge that your oil has been grown on a farm that has seen the number of farmland birds increase by 200% in a decade. What more could you want?
Available in all RSPB stores and online here. Happy Shopping!
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A serious point...
The Secretary of State is due, before Christmas, to make an announcement about how he plans to implement the Common Agriculture Policy package in England. Regular readers of this blog will be well aware of what we want. But equally, you will be sanguine about the fact that the money to support wildlife-friendly farming will diminish. Farms that have, like Hope Farm, benefited from the entry-level stewardship scheme may not be able to do so in the future. So, farmers across the country will need to find their own way to continue to make a profit while recovering farmland wildlife. At Hope Farm, we want to continue to pioneer new approaches to profitable farming that benefits wildlife. Love Nature Oil is the start of what might be an exciting adventure...
Roughly yes, redkite, but still on a declining trajectory and still short in terms of meeting stated ambition. My blog of a couple of weeks showed a graph to that effect.
Hi Martin, I did understand (perhaps I am wrong) that if Defra decide to transfer the full 15% of funds from direct farm payments to the Rural Development Fund (RDF) and that with almost the largest proportion possible of the RDF spent on wildlife friendly farming that, this would largely make up for the reduced amount of funds in the new RDF budget. Therefore the budget for wildlife friendly farming would remain roughly as it was before.