Animals, plants, insects, fungi and bacteria all interact with their environment in the pursuit of nourishment. There was a time when human beings too would have survived on the plants and animals they could forage from their own immediate...

The seven principle cereals grown in the World are wheat, rice, sorghum, barley, oats, rye and maize, In the UK we grow wheat, rye, oats and barley but other than wheat a lot is not grown as a UK human food crop. Barley is the oldest cereal...