Beeing kinder

Bees are so important.

In the lead up to the EU's second vote to suspend the use of bee-harmful pesticides, here's what the Soil Association's Emma Hockridge had to say about how organic farming can make the difference:

"Organic farms also provide the wild spaces at field margins and in hedgerows, providing a diversity of flowers and habitats for bees to nest and shelter. Thus, by supporting their place in the delicate natural balance of plants and insects that are all mutually dependent on one another, organic farming is both supporting biodiversity and the bee."

Encourage Owen Paterson, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to support Britain's dwindling bee colonies by voting in favour of a neonicotinoid ban.