Birmingham is just below the 53rd parallel, marked by a red line in the map below, nearly two thirds of the way up from the Equator towards the North Pole.
At the best of times, the UK climate and terrain limits the range and quantity of fresh produce we can grow here. This Brexit means we’ve grown used to empty supermarket shelves, especially now midway through the ‘hungry months‘...
“We cannot find anything substantive and implementable in the White Paper that will beneficially affect UK food security, the resilience of food supply chains, any particular sector within the food system or access to healthy nutritious food.”