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Futurefarms - Martin Ltd
St. Hilda’s, Martin, Fordingbridge, SP6 3LG
Registered in England no. 5120703

Links and further reading

Other related organisations

Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs AONB
The parish of Martin lies within this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Wessex Organic Movement
Promoting organic farming in Wessex

Springhead Trust
Centre for the Arts, Environment, and Personal Development

Martin Parish website
News and information about the villages in the parish of Martin

Food, health, and the environment

Friends of the earth “real food” campaign
Including the health issues posed by genetic modification and pesticides

Soil Association
The benefits of organic farming and the dangers to health and to the environment from industrial farming

Local food: benefits and opportunities
Social, environmental, and economic arguments for relocalising our food supply (large file - right click and choose “save target as” if you have a slow link)

Animal welfare

Compassion in World Farming
Animal welfare issues in factory farming

The Meatrix
Animation about meat farms

Further reading

The Great Food Gamble - John Humphrys; Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General;
The effects of factory farming on the nation’s health and environment.

The Worm forgives the Plough - John Stewart Collis; Publisher: Penguin Books; 1988
An account of the author’s time working on British farms during WW2.

Silent Spring - Rachel Carson; Publisher: Penguin Books; 2000
The destruction of the countryside through the indiscriminate use of pesticides.

The Killing of the Countryside - Graham Harvey; Publisher: Vintage; 1998
An attack on modern British agricultural policy and practice

Home Farm - Michael Allaby and Colin Tudge; Publisher: Macmillan; 1977
Complete food self-sufficiency

Home Farm Handbook - Peter Ford; Publisher: Harper Collins; 2000
More food self-sufficiency

So Shall We Reap - Colin Tudge; Publisher: Penguin Books; 2003
An overview of modern farming highlighting the need for change if we are to continue to feed people for the indefinite future.

Food: A History - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto; Publisher: Macmillan; 2001
A history of food from the start of humanity to the industrialisation of the modern age.

The Living Land - Jules Pretty; Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd; 1999
A presentation of the case for returning life to the countryside, restoring the rural economy and putting agriculture on a sustainable footing.

We Want Real Food - Graham Harvey; Publisher: Constable and Robinson Ltd; 2006
How modern farming practices are affecting the nutritional value of our food

Not on the label - Feleicty Lawrence; Publisher: Penguin 2004
What really goes into the food on your plate

Let’s Cook it Right - Adelle Davis; Publisher: Unwin Health 1979

Your Daily Food: Recipe for Survival - Doris Grant; Publisher: Keats Publishing 1974

Food Politics - Marion Nestle; Publisher: University of California Press 2002
How the food industry influences nutrition and health

The McDonaldization of Society - George Ritzer
An investigation into the changing character of contemporary social life

English Farming, Past and Present - Lord Ernle; first published 1912

The Disappearance of the Small Landowner - Arthur H Johnson; first published 1909

Local events

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