Opinion

• Grow Your Own: a berry easy way to eat healthy

  Superfoods are natural, unprocessed foods, low in calories and packed to the brim with anti-oxidants and masses of essential vitamins and minerals. They punch well above their weight when it comes to healthy eating.

• A film to quell the appetite

  The news that the recent horsemeat scandal has prompted many consumers to eschew processed foods is heartening.

• Grow Your Own: soil matters

  This week I shall be mostly writing about soil.

• A taste of Scotland's finest food and drink

  If Twitter is anything to go by, the buzz around last week's announcement of the shortlist for the Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards is unprecedented, with congratulatory tweets and retweets flying all over the place.

• Grow Your Own: guerrilla gardening

  Have you ever fancied a bit of guerrilla gardening? That’s guerrilla, as in ‘member of a small independent group of people sticking it to The Man’, not gorilla, as in ‘largest and most powerful of the great apes.