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Colin Tudge’s Great Re‑Think

This website is intended to identify and develop the ideas needed to rescue humanity and our fellow creatures from what is now the brink of total disaster — for if only we did conceptually simple things well then we and our fellow creatures could still be looking forward to a long and glorious future: the next million years for starters.

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Recent articles from the Blog

Beans by many other names: Part one

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Colin Tudge

The derek cooper award This month, out of the blue and marvellously, Ruth and I became the proud recipients of one of the BBC Food Programme’s Food and Farming Awards; to wit, “the Derek Cooper Award for Outstanding Achievement”. It is a great honour and a great fillip. Derek was a fine writer and a … Read more

Beans by many other names: Part two: the recipes

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Colin Tudge

I ended each chapter with a few recipes plagiarised from various sources but modified in the light of what was then the orthodox nutritional theory. The emphasis was on low-fat, under the influence of the American physiologist / nutritionist Ancel Keys (1904-2004). Keys’s general idea – that we should follow a basically Mediterranean diet – … Read more

Soil is a community. It is a conversation

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guest author 

Rabbi Jeffery Newman reflects on the harmony of life, as is manifest in science, in religion, and is visible in a clod of earth Civilisation rests on six inches of soil. The film of that name — Six Inches of Soil (Colin Ramsay, 2024) has made this truth newly visible to a wide audience, but … Read more

English Walnuts

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Suzanne Wynn

Growing walnuts is a long-term undertaking but the taste is a revelation.

The Big Idea

The Big Idea is divided into the following chapters: 

The pic — of me (CT) among some of John Letts’ Heritage wheat in Buckinghamshire — encapsulates some of the prime themes of The Great Re-Think. For John raises genetically diverse cereals on soils of low fertility year-on-year: no fertilizer, no pesticide, no herbicide, no digging, no fallow, and all wonderfully wildlife-friendly: key principles of agroecology applied to arable. All this is the complete opposite of the modern, industrial trend — monocultures of uniform crops chemicalized to the hilt. To rescue the world at this late hour we need to apply such radical thinking to all aspects of life.

Colin Tudge among some of John Letts’s Heritage wheat in Buckinghamshire

Recent comments

  2. Hello, Very interesting article. I spend a lot of time in Southern France and agree about the quality of French…