Fine positive messages at Copenhagen EU FoodTrails public procurement conference. Cities learning from each other. 2015 Milan @mufpp as key exchange hub. Value of targets for health, taste, CO2e & training. Copenhagen now has 24 Food Schools (pupils spend a week cooking for all).

These caterpillars are on a large verbascum in our garden. Specialist advice, please! Is this water betony moth (Cucullia scrophulariae) caterpillar?

Show title changed (for political reasons…?) now ‘Raving not drowning’ but what kind of rave is not fixed yet. Brexit fall-out. It is @LatitudeFest and here is the props hut in the Faraway Forest section (in the woods obviously)

UK Government really does seem to think by joining the CPTPP, it’s just towed GB and N Ireland into the mid Pacific. N Ireland is actually tethered to Irish Republic (or I thought so). I thought I was joking… but see this official ad in today’s papers. Surreal.

What is not to like about a garden shed with all the tools clean and neatly ordered? All tidy for ⁦@gardenorganicuk⁩ AGM

Isn’t quince blossom simply gorgeous? (another year promising fruit …but never hold your breath, one learns to say!)

UK food price inflation now 19.2%. Pushes more households into poverty and food cutbacks. No wonder Cost of Living Commission I’m on hears of “destitution”. People go without food not for a single day but for more. Silence from Govt. So much for taking back control in unequal UK.

My honour to give the Oration for ⁦@marionnestle⁩ receiving the 2023 Edinburgh Medal at the Edinburgh Science Festival. What a great role model she is for science in the public interest. Our heroine as public intellectual. What a champion of food system transformation!!

UK govt has taken risky & costly way to tackle energy price inflation with its £150 bn 2-yr plan. But it is silent on food price inflation, now running at 13%. Industry expects this to rise further. Bad politics. Big hit on health. Charity cannot resolve. ons.gov.uk/economy/inflation…