Observer Food Monthly Awards 2012 Best ethical restaurant: Create
Lucy Siegle visits the Leeds restaurant that serves up hope to its staff as well as top-quality meals to its customers
Wine trends for 2012
Expect to hear more from Swartland and natural wine producers – as well as rising prices, writes David Williams
Observer Food Monthly Awards 2011 Best ethical eats: The Ethicurean
Somerset's Walled Garden Cafe is no longer a hidden gem – OFM readers love it
Prince Charles: ‘If I didn’t do this, who would?’
Britain's best known organic farmer tells Tim Adams about soil, sustainability and the unity of all things
Restaurant review: Soseki
The Japanese may have a penchant for eating endangered species, but Soseki allows customers to make a sea change
Natural wine: how to pick a winner
Natural wine will be big in 2011, predicts David Williams
Best UK ethical restaurant or cafe 2010: Riverford Farm, Buckfastleigh, Devon
Riverford Farm gets the readers' vote for quality and sustainability
10 sustainable foods for your shopping basket
The foodstuffs that do least harm to the planet – and where you can get them from, by Andrew Purvis
10 ways vegetarianism can help save the planet
The average British carnivore eats more than 11,000 animals in their lifetime, each requiring vast amounts of land, fuel and water to reach the plate. It's time to think of waste as well as taste
Urban farms: can you source a complete meal from inside the M25?
From quail in the East End to honey bees in King's Cross, Carole Cadwalladr goes in search of all the ingredients for a meal sourced as close as possible to her London home
Restaurant review: The Field Kitchen, Riverford Farm
Those smug city types with organic veg boxes may be on to something – especially if the food comes from Riverford Farm
Urban foraging: ‘It’s day two and I’m going to die’
Is it possible to feed yourself for a week simply with food you find growing wild – in London? Bella Bathurst takes up the urban foraging challenge
Wake up and smell the biodynamic coffee
There's an awful lot of coffee in Brazil, but how much of it is grown according to the principles of spiritual guru Rudolf Steiner? Andrew Purvis talks to the farmers dedicated to helping the poor, respecting the workers – and producing some of the happiest skinny lattes on the planet
Food, famine & climate change: How we feed the world on 85p
As successive droughts and financial turmoil push a billion people worldwide to the brink of starvation, Plumpy'nut, a fast-food wonder snack, is quietly saving children's lives
How far would you go to recycle?
What will happen to the mountain of beer cans? Andrew Purvis follows his own recycling box to see where it goes