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No national health until we fix farming
Despite the multiple challenges facing Britain’s health service, Minister Wes Streeting seems determined to move it in the direction of...
Graham Harvey
Jul 31, 20255 min read


The real danger of smoothies
The Guardian’s front page skyline caught my eye straight away. ‘The truth about juices and smoothies,’ it read. ‘Should you down them or...
Graham Harvey
Jul 31, 20254 min read


Our poisoned land
Across Britain thousands of wheat crops will soon be ripening in the summer sun. Shortly before harvest, many will be sprayed with a...
Graham Harvey
Jul 31, 20253 min read


Grass-fed milk – kinder to cows, better for people
Back in the 1920s dairy farmers were under greater financial pressures than today. But an innovative farmer-engineer called Arthur Hosier...
Graham Harvey
Feb 14, 20225 min read


Pip Archer - My part in her story
In trying to come up with storylines for the teenage Pip Archer, a character I didn’t know particularly well, I found inspiration in the...
Graham Harvey
Feb 13, 20224 min read


A love remembered
The year 1984 was a big one for George Orwell and me. George imagined Big Brother and the Ministry of Truth. I imagined Elizabeth Archer...
Graham Harvey
Jan 23, 20223 min read


Who needs this technology?
A plan to ease the rules on gene editing in food crop research is just about the last thing our countryside needs. The Government says...
Graham Harvey
Jan 20, 20222 min read


Drama and reality on the land
This country church, high on a hill-top in Worcestershire, England, has had a long connection with The Archers, the world’s...
Graham Harvey
Jan 16, 20225 min read


Joy at Bridge Farm
Delighted to hear Natasha and Tom are expecting twins. It’s 25 years now since Tom’s brother John was killed in a tragic tractor accident...
Graham Harvey
Jan 12, 20222 min read
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