The Farmacy

By The Farmacy

Farmer Charles and Doctor Rachel discuss with guests about their lifestyle, their diet and their understanding about where their food comes from, how its produced and the impact that can have on the e... more

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The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.

The Farmacy episodes:

November 23, 2023 Organic food and farming with Rosa Holt
Episode 7: Charlie and Rachel speak to Rosa Holt @foodandfarmingdietician, an NHS critical care dietician who is also passionate about organic farming and sustainable food and farming. She sits on the Sustainable diets committee for the British Dietetics Association and is also an advisor for the Soil Association. Charlie and Rachel dig deep into the potential of organic produce while balancing this with affordability, availability and environmental impact.
1:30 Intro
3:00 Introducing Rosa Holt
5:00 The health benefits of organic produce
6:15 Nutrient density in organic plants and potential health benefits
12:00 Healthy behaviours of people eating organic produce
12:50 Environmental benefits of organic principles
13:50 Deficiencies in the diet
16:00 Affordability of organic food
19:00 The Food Strategy, https://www.nationalfoodstrategy.org/
21:00 More on affordability and education
25:00 Is an organic diet truly better?
27:00 Traditional mixed farming benefits
28:45 Can we feed ourselves organically?
32:50 Genetic modification/Gene editing
34:08 Rosa's wild turkeys
37:55 The cost of organic farming and crop yields
43:00 If you are going to start buying one organic product, what should it be?
44:45 Summary
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47min
October 31, 2023 Venison with Tom Cackett
Episode 6 - VenisonCharlie and Rachel interview Tom Cackett, deer stalker and founder of Oxondeer. They review the heath and environmental benefits of eating venison and consider why this super healthy, environmentally friendly product is not as popular as other farmed red meats.www.oxondeer.co.uk, @oxondeerltd, @the_deercast
1:15 Introduction and catch up
1:45 Mental health strain in farming
3:00 Low Carb recap
4.45 Introducing Tom Cackett and Oxon Deer, @oxondeerltd, @the_deercast
7:00 Increasing numbers of wild deer in UK
8:20 Why do wild deer need to be culled?
11:50 Road traffic collisions with deer
12:45 Some vegans eat venison
13:55 How are deer killed?
16:30 Bovine TB in deer
17:10 Farmed deer Vs Wild deer
21:45 The health benefits of venison
27:00 Why are more people not eating venison
30:00 Controlling the population
33:00 Deer Stalking as a career
37:00 Lead shot in venison
39:25 Venison - a low carbon footprint meat
42:10 Charlie's joke of the week 🤣
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44min
October 16, 2023 The Low Carb GP - Dr David Unwin
Charles and Rachel talk to Dr David Unwin, @lowcarbGP, also known as the Low Carb GP, who is a GP in Southport, diabetes expert and pioneer in the low carb approach to managing and reversing Type II Diabetes. He won the NHS Innovator of the year award for the successful strategies he has developed for reversing type II Diabetes with diet. In this fascinating episode Charles and Rachel learn about how David developed his approach and how we can all consider the carbohydrates in our diet whether we are type II diabetes sufferers or not. David's other passion is for regenerative farming and he talks about this with equal passion and compares the lessons and challenges we face in medicine to those in farming
.2:50 Introduction to Dr David Unwin
4:30 How the low carb approach started
8:00 The outcomes of using the low carb approach
9:30 Why are rates of Type II Diabetes increasing and insulin resistance
14:20 The low carb approach in General Practice
19:50 Food addiction
22:25 Should we all be going low-carb?
26:50 Why is the NHS Diabetes advice not following low carb?
28:50 The Freshwell low carb app and the Diabetes UK plan: https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/enjoy-food/eating-with-diabetes/meal-plans/low-carb
30:50 Analogies with regenerative farming
33:50 Long term effects of fertiliser
36:30 David's role at The three Owls bird sanctuaryhttp://www.threeowls.co.uk/
39:30 Nutritional density of food
41:30 Sharing knowledge between health and farming
47:00 Summary of the analogies between medicine and farming
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52min
October 02, 2023 Halal and Tayib farming
Charlie and Rachel talk to Lutfi Radwan, co-founder of Willowbrook Farm in Oxfordshire, the first Halal farm in UK. In this fascinating episode Lutfi dispels many myths about what Halal is and the implications for Halal meat production. They also consider the positive impact Willowbrook Farm has had in its community from breaking down cultural barriers to introducing sustainable farming methods.
https://www.willowbrookfarm.co.uk/
@willowbrookfarmers
2:05 - An Introduction to Lutfi and Willowbrook Farm
5:40 - What is Halal and Tayib?
8:10 - Contrasting factory farmed and halal farmed poultry
14:20 - Who buys Willowbrook produce?
15:20 - What does Halal slaughter entail and where does it happen?
19:10 - We return to the question of whether these high-quality products are accessible to all?
23:11 - Meat and lamb consumption in Muslim population, UK
26:20 - Breaking down cultural barriers
33:05 - Are there health benefits to the Halal produce?
38:00 - Community engagement with farming
39:50 - Other environmentally responsible processes on Willowbrook Farm
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46min
September 14, 2023 Food poverty and FareShare
Charlie and Rachel speak to Richard Kennell, CEO of SOFEA in Oxfordshire about the FareShare movement, food poverty and insecurity in UK. They consider how the price of food and food waste fits into this complex issue.

SOFEA Oxfordshire: https://www.sofea.uk.com/
SOFEA Community Larder Membership: https://www.sofea.uk.com/purpose-projects/community-larder/
FareShare https://fareshare.org.uk/
2:28 Food insecurity in UK
3:40 Introduction to Richard Kennell and SOFEA
5:00 The FareShare Charity and Network
7:20 Where does surplus food come from
12:50 Excess produce and rejected goods
15:00 DEFRA/FareShare Surplus for Purpose
19:00 Community Larders
22:30 Food Poverty Vs Poverty and Food Prices
25:00 Food Culture in UK
26:00 The barriers to eating well
30:00 Health impacts of food poverty
32:50 Should we subsidise food production more
35:50 Education regarding food
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41min
August 27, 2023 Meat the facts. Talking beef with Nikki Yoxall.
Charles and Rachel talk to Nikki Yoxall, a beef farmer from Grampian Graziers in Aberdeenshire and Research Manager for Pasture for Life. They discuss restorative and pasture fed meat production while comparing this to mass produced products and what benefits each method provides from an environment and health perspective.
2:20 Introducing Nikki Yoxall
7:00 What should people be looking for when buying meat?
10:50 Barriers to eating healthy food
14:35 Should pasture fed meat be sold as a premium product?
17:30 Abattoir shortages in UK
21:00 The environmental impact of different diets, discussing Nature Food study:Scarborough, P., Clark, M., Cobiac, L. et al. Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts. Nat Food 4, 565–574 (2023).

31:50 Intensively-produced Vs Pasture-fed meat
37:20 The health recommendations on eating red meat.
42:30 Saturated fats in red meat.
47:30 Ultra-processed meat alternatives
49:50 Where to buy pasture-fed meat
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54min
August 06, 2023 Milk and milk alternatives
In this episode Charlie and Rachel focus on Milk, considering the pros and cons of dairy versus plant-based alternatives and the environmental impact of producing each type.Their guest is Dr Kerry Lock (linkedin.com/in/kerry-lock-phd), a nutritional therapist who leads the Nourish and Flourish Programme and SOFEA . She is also a former departmental lecturer in environmental conservation and sustainability at University of Oxford, . She also happens to be vegan. They leave no stone unturned when considering which milk is bets for us and the planet, and why!
0.00 - Intro and catch up
4.20 - Introducing Kerry Lock
5.30 - An overview of the Nourish and Flourish Programme
8.00 - NHS guidance on Milk
11.15 - Comparing milks nutritionally
13.00 - Plant based milk comparison
16.30 - Coconut milk and saturated fat content
19.00 - Additives in plant based milks
20.30 - Organic Cow milk21.00 - Price comparison
23.40 - Maintaining a healthy vegan diet
25.40 - Calcium in milks
28.30 - Osteoporosis
33.00 - Lactose intolerance
36.00 - The environmental impact of different milks
40.20 - Methane production
41.45 - Comparing environmental impact of different foods
42.50 - Water consumption in milk production
44.15 - Food miles of milk
47.30 - Take home messages

More information can be found about the Nourish and Flourish programme: Nourish and Flourish - SOFEA
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51min
June 09, 2023 The Farmacy - An introduction
Farmer Charles and Dr Rachel introduce themselves and the concept of the Farmacy Podcast. Each episode they will be chatting to guests from all backgrounds about food and farming, health and wellbeing, the countryside around us and how they all tie in together.
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9min

FAQs about The Farmacy:

How many episodes does The Farmacy have?

The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.