I eat only strangers’ leftover food – and it’s the best diet I’ve ever had

To try to combat the mountain of food waste, diabetic Andrew Mayers decided to live on what people chuck in the bin. Even if it’s two doughnuts and a cucumber

OFM Awards 2019: Best ethical food project – The Clean Kilo

The Midlands store that’s brings a realistic and convenient approach to everyday zero-waste shopping

OFM Awards 2019: Best ethical food project – the runners-up

A not-for-profit cooperative grocers and a local milk delivery service are among the projects that made the OFM readers’ shortlist

OFM Awards 2019: Best producer – Jess’s Ladies Organic Milk

Jess Vaughan’s dairy products fly off the shelves at farm shops, Her secret? A small herd of happy, well-cared-for cows, aka the ‘ladies’

OFM Awards 2018: Best Ethical Food project – runners-up

From green cafes to pop-up supper clubs, readers’ choices of the UK’s best sustainable enterprises

OFM Awards 2016 best ethical restaurant: Silo

At his Brighton restaurant, voted Best Ethical by OFM readers, Doug McMaster grinds his own flour, churns his own butter, and ships his coffee in by sailboat

OFM Awards 2015 best ethical restaurant: the runners-up

Sustainable, environmentally friendly and charitable: readers’ choices from across Britain

OFM Awards 2015 best ethical restaurant: The Clink, HMP Brixton

There’s local food, recycling, composting … but at a restaurant staffed by inmates, it’s the sustainability of people that’s most important

Why do people get so cross about natural wine?

For some critics it’s the gamey flavours; for others it’s the sometimes sanctimonious ideology. But natural wine is here to stay

OFM awards 2014 best ethical restaurant: runners-up

Whether it’s for the fair traded food, charitable giving or community involvement, these are readers’ choices from across the country. Compiled by Sophie Missing

OFM awards 2014 best ethical restaurant: Friska

From its menu to its partnership with a microfinance charity, this Bristol cafe chain has ethics at its core, writes Campbell Stevenson

OFM awards 2013 best ethical restaurant: Poco

Bristol 'eco-chef' Tom Hunt sources ingredients from within 50 miles of home and weighs his restaurant's rubbish every single day. The food's brilliant, too

OFM awards 2013 best ethical restaurant: runners up

Readers' choices for ethical dining around the country, compiled by Mina Holland

Observer Food Monthly Awards 2012 Best Ethical Restaurant: runners up

Readers' choices of organic, local, sustainable cafes and restaurants around the country

Observer Food Monthly Awards 2012 Best Independent Local Retailer: Growing Communities

From a box veg scheme, this north London organisation has grown in 17 years to include a farmers' market and to campaign for sustainable food. By Killian Fox