My rifle skills are improving but does that mean I’ll make a clean shot?
My year spent only eating animals I have killed myself has featured on the BBC and in Scottish Field, leading to some expected ribbing about ‘glamorous’ photos with guns and some unexpected conclusions about the nature of shooting. Read more
Rabbit features in much of our childhood literature but it will also feature in the kill to eat diet.
I am often asked why I have not eaten more rabbit on this journey. The simple answer is that it takes time to learn to shoot a rabbit properly. There is also the Watership Down problem. Read more
Cod caught off the east coast of Scotland
During the winter months it was difficult to find something to eat, but there is plenty of life in the sea – or there was. Read more
I spent the winter learning how to shoot
I grew up in the countryside, so it may seem strange to call this my first shooting season. But this is the first time I’ve actually held a gun. Read more
Wild soay sheep
This blog is about to get bloody. Sorry, but I did say I was writing a book about only eating animals I have killed myself. This means at some point I will have to kill something. The point is to do it in as humane a way as possible and to educate people about where meat comes from. Read more
I didn’t mean to match my nail varnish to the oyster knife…
Oysters are possibly the most “raw” food experience you can get, in fact they are probably still alive when you eat them… Read more
Microdosing crops with fertiliser using a bottle cap. Copyright Gordon Conway
It was a perfectly nice day out in the Suffolk countryside but the organisers of Aldeburgh Food Festival decided to liven things up with a ‘Frankenstein’. As Sir Gordon Conway pointed out to the audience at Snape Maltings he was part human, part pig. Read more
