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Choose Local Food Conversation – by Helen Fisher
It’s never hard to find something to disagree about. A quick glance at the news, a conversation with colleagues… even a few minutes within your own thoughts. We’re surrounded by ideas pulling views in opposite directions. So it’s novel, transformative even, to take a pause and find reason to come together around a shared vision.…
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Celebrating Chefs: Cultivating a Sustainable Food Culture
Good food should be a defining feature of the places we live. This is the belief of Food Partnerships all over the UK. I’m personally interested in the pivotal role that chefs and restaurateurs play in a food culture: at the interface between good food producers and hungry communities. The sad reality is – in…
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Hunger, Hardship and Low Hanging Fruit: two new food reports
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My reflections on the Lincolnshire Food Summit 2024
It’s not just the younger generations who need to be included in project creation and campaigning. When we have time, those of us with knowledge and expertise in marketing and PR should be willing to work alongside people from disadvantaged backgrounds to empower them to use their voice to get involved.
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Food as a public good
We were waiting anxiously in hospital with our 6 year old. He was in considerable pain, and not allowed to eat or drink while he awaited an emergency operation to have his appendix out. Grateful to be offered a bed in the children’s ward, we browsed the large and attractive wall posters as we waited,…
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What I learned from attending the Lincolnshire Food Summit 2023
Reflections by Matti Colley On Thursday 23rd November 2023 I was invited to attend the Lincolnshire Food Summit at the New Life Centre, Sleaford. The summit was organised by the Greater Lincolnshire Food Partnership, Acts Trust, Sleaford New Life and the Lincolnshire Co-op, and was attended by around 80 representatives from local foodbanks, community groceries…
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3 things I took away from the Lincolnshire Food Summit
Reflections by Laura Stratford, Food Partnership Coordinator At the end of last year, around 80 people who are involved in foodbanks and other kinds of food support gathered at The New Life Centre in Sleaford for the Lincolnshire Food Summit. We came to listen, to share, and to find ways to collaborate. From what you…
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The Future of Food in the Fens – online event
This online event explores a range of challenges that we will face in relation to food production on the Grade 1 land of the Lincolnshire Fens, including transport, flooding, climate change, policy, infrastructure, biodiversity and more. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions, contribute to discussions and will be prompted to reflect on a…
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Supper Clubs 2023 Feedback
We would love to hear your feedback from the Supper Clubs. Please reflect on what you have enjoyed, what could be improved upon and how you may like to get involved in the future. Would you like to see the work of the Good Food Movement in Lincolnshire continue through World Food Supper Clubs? Thank…
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Water
Water is Life. Water is Food. Leave No-one Behind. This is the bold statement for this year’s World Food Day on 16th October – the anniversary of the Food & Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. As changes in the climate and degradation of ecosystems put increasing pressure on water availability for food and farming…
