How research affects food and farming

RURAL researchers will visit two farmers’ markets to talk about food and farming – and how their work affects the products we buy. The researchers, from the Countryside and Community Research Institute at the University of Gloucestershire, will be setting up stalls at farmers’ markets in Cheltenham (10 November) and Cirencester (11 November). The idea […]

Countryside is good for you – study

SPENDING time in the countryside is better for your brain than spending time in the city, says a study. Researchers found time spent in rural and coastal locations is more psychologically beneficial to individuals than time spent in urban green spaces, Their findings having been published in the journal Environment & Behavior. Rsearchers from the […]