Currant affairs: How Ribena's blackcurrant growers are blending a new recipe for regenerative farming

Currant affairs: How Ribena's blackcurrant growers are blending a new recipe for regenerative farming

Stuart Stone
clock • 14 min read

Suntory's Harriet Prosser and Ribena blackcurrant grower Rosie Begg dig into how regenerative practices are being harnessed for perennial crops that remain reliant on a 'winter chill' in a warming climate

Grown from Somerset to Dundee via Kent and the West Midlands, British blackcurrants are a £10m business for Ribena-maker Suntory Beverage & Food Great Britain and Ireland, which uses 90 per cent of the...

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