Incredible Edible Huddersfield

This week, Costing the Earth on BBC Radio 4 ran an extended item on the mineral content of food grown and raised in the United Kingdom. Several studies over the years have shown that the minerals and trace elements in our vegetables and fruit have fallen dramatically, with a quantifiable effect on our health and wellbeing. You can still listen to the program on the BBC iPlayer at The Great Mineral Heist. Anyone who has read Graham Harvey's book We Want Real Food will have heard of Moira and Cameron Thomson who took over 6-acres of desperately poor soil in the 1990s and now have a thriving organic growing business producing huge quantities of vegetable, after they remineralised their soil with rockdust. They are featured on the Radio 4 programme talking about their experiences.