Eat Like Your Ancestors (From the Ground Beneath Your Feet): A Sustainable Food Journey Around the English West Midlands

Do you want to eat better and save the planet? Do media headlines about the damaging effects of the food we eat make you despair? The advice we see can be confusing uninspiring (all numbers and exclusion boxes) or make us feel that everything we eat is wrong.The good news is that you dont have to be bamboozled particularly with statistics about greenhouse gas emissions. Reconnect instead to the world of real food grown by farmers using age-old ways suited to their local landscape.This is a compact but deep dive into sustainable food. Liz Pearson Mann takes you on a journey around the English West Midlands - a diverse landscape with a rich food history. Its relevant to where you live too. Having spent many years working in archaeology she gives you her perspective on food. Its a story of small farms nature-friendly farming of poop rare breed sheep cider hops and ancient grains. Why might ways of farming and eating that stretch back into prehistory be relevant to us today? Come on a journey to hear more. Discover how people have always fed themselves from the ground beneath their feet and how you can too. Tune into your local farmscape. Find out how you can reconnect. And how the past can show us the way for the future.