Four trustees who recently resigned from Britain’s largest organic group, the Soil Association have claimed the organisation has lost touch with its roots and abandoned the ‘o’ word. The four Trustees resigned following a dispute at the Council’s November meeting over a strategy adopted in 2011 to govern the future direction of the organisation. Food writer […]

Four trustees of the Soil Association just resigned, ‘more in sorrow than in anger’. Joanna Blythman, Lynda Brown, Andrew Whitley and former Ecologist editor Pat Thomas all decided they were unable to contribute further to the organisation, the UK’s leading organic certifier and the ‘mother ship’ of British organic farming. Read the article

The UK’s biggest organic lobbying group has disowned its philosophical roots, is failing to support homeopathy for animals and has developed a dull and insipid image, say four trustees who have resigned over the Soil Association’s future direction. In a scathing letter the trustees say the 68-year old charity, which certifies four-fifths of organic produce […]

Four trustees of the Soil Association have resigned from its council board with a stinging blast over how the organisation is run. Campaigning food journalist Joanna Blythman, food writer Lynda Brown, author and former editor of The Ecologist Pat Thomas and organic baker, author and founder of the UK’s Real Bread Campaign Andrew Whitley stood […]

Four prominent Soil Association trustees who recently resigned from the charity have accused it of disowning the ‘O’ word and “a tendency to infantalise the organic message”. In a blog the author and food campaigner, Joanna Blythman, says she and the other departing trustees – former Ecologist editor, Pat Thomas, organic baker Andrew Whitley and […]

Growing your own is fun, gets you outside and is good exercise. Herbs and flowers encourage bees and butterflies into your garden. Our Riverford Box to Grow flower kit provides you with an instant cut flower garden and within weeks you’ll be picking flowers for several months to bring into your home and give to […]

Many women feel naked in public without a slash of scarlet on their lips, but could your lipstick harbour a dangerous secret?…All these worries prompt Pat ­Thomas, a UK expert and author on cosmetic safety, to urge women to moderate both their use of lipstick and the brightness of the ­colours they choose… Read the […]

We feel privileged to have Pat Thomas, former editor of the Ecologist magazine, debating the future of the Ecologist – will it be a Resurgence or do we need something completely different? Read the article

Some of you might know the environmental magazine called the Ecologist. Several days ago it was announced that they are to merge with another publication called Resurgence. This by itself is not necessarily anything unusual. The interesting piece of information for me really only became apparent to me when I read this excellent and very […]

After 42 years of lawsuits from GM companies, campaigns against nuclear power, and breastfeeding tips, the Goldsmith family has sold the Ecologist magazine for £1…Pat Thomas, Ecologist editor between 2007 and 2009, said: “There’s a real sadness about it, although perhaps it will work out in the end. But no matter how you phrase it, […]