Reading

Books about Startups & running a business doing something different

The Lean Start up: Eric Reis

How Brands Grow: Byron Sharp

Switch: how to change when change is hard: Chip and Dan Heath

Drive: the surprising truth about what what motivates us: Daniel Pink

Obliquity: why our goals are best achieved indirectly: John Kay

Books about the food we eat

Eat your heart out: Felicity Lawrence

Fast Food Nation: what the All-American meal is doing to the world

Bad Food Britain: How a Nation ruined its appetite - Joanna Blythman

Chew on this: Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson

The Omnivore's Dilemma: Joanna Blythman

The End of Food: Paul Roberts

Eating Animals: Jonathan Safran Foer

Anti-Cancer: A new way of life - Dr David Servan Schreiber

Farm Animal Voice: Compassion in World Farming's regular publication

Bread Matters:  The State of Modern Bread by Andrew Whitley

Books which made us think

Affluenza: Oliver James - very thought provoking indeed 
Talent is over-rated: Geoff Colvin - behind every talent is 10,000 hrs of graft 
Type Talk: Otto Kroeger &Janet M. Thuesen - about Myers Briggs types

Outliers: The Story of Success: Malcolm Gladwell - why timing is everything 
Ignore Everybody: Hugh Macloed - why going your own way is never easy

 

Links and bits & bobs

- Selling pasties to the Cornish (read here) 

- Wales' funniest nickname - hear our interview on BBC Wales here

- We are accredited by Organic Farmers & Growers,

 - localfoodadvisor.com  is the UK's biggest local food site

- The Organic Supermarket is a site designed with healthier living in mind

- True Taste is the main website promoting quality Welsh Food

- Compassion in World Farming campaign to ban factory farming

- The Organic Co-operative promote Organic Food in Wales