Farming and food
Countryside near Totnes, Devon. Photo: © CPRE
Farming should be about more than simply growing crops. It should be about:
- providing healthy, high quality food at a fair price
- securing a beautiful, diverse and accessible countryside
- contributing to vibrant rural communities
We are working to encourage this wider role for farming. You can read about some of our work by looking at our 'local foods' campaign.
The hidden cost of managing the countryside
Our report reveals the hidden work farmers do to maintain the countryside.
> Farming: What CPRE is doing
Local foods
Our vision is that wherever you live, you should be able to walk into a shop, supermarket or restaurant and find high-quality, affordable local food.
> Local foods
Life on a farmCPRE has helped Devon organic farmer Paula Wolton to set up a blog. We want farming to thrive in England, and believe that it is essential that people understand farming and farmers better in order for that to happen. Paula's views expressed here are her own and we won't necessarily share all of them, but we're happy to have helped give her a voice.
