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Celebrating Apples & Orchards
Lost Apple Varieties Do you have lost Lincolnshire variety apple tree in your garden, allotment or neighbourhood? If your tree is more than 50 years old there’s a chance you may have one of the potentially ‘lost’ Lincolnshire varieties such as Old Man, Garrett’s Golden Pippin, Stoup’s Leadington. Apple Day 2023 The zenith of the…
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A Lincolnshire Breadbasket
Conversations and networking for farmers, millers and bakers Following previous events – the Future of Wheat/Bread and a Lincolnshire Breadbasket (picture gallery here) – we are bringing together people working with grain in Lincolnshire, from land to loaf. We’ll be talking about what it means to grow diverse and resilient grain, the role of millers…
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The Grocery, Bardney
“Our vision is for a UK without the need for food banks.” The Trussell Trust (the UK’s largest network of foodbanks, including Lincoln Foodbank) Can foodbanks help with the cost of living crisis? No. Most foodbanks and community larders are intended to meet urgent, short term, emergency needs for food. They were never intended to…
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Maize Supper – SOLD OUT
Hosted by Carolina Camacho A multisensorial meal experience facilitated by our Mexican friend and Agronomist & Social Scientist from the University of Lincoln, Dr Carolina Camacho, interwoven her personal journey with maize history and legends from Mexican Indigenous communities. If you are not able to attend, please let us know at the earliest opportunity: amie@lincolnshirefoodpartnership.org
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School food helps children thrive
Family food security in Lincoln The biggest rise in foodbank referrals in Lincoln is to households with children, according to the recent Reality of Food Poverty in Lincoln report. Children now represent 35% of food parcel recipients in Lincoln. I don’t know how that statistic makes you feel – I feel that in my stomach.…
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The value of food
Is the price of food too cheap? Or too expensive? Even with the cost of living crisis and rises in food prices of the past year, we still spend wildly less on food (and more on housing) than our grandparents did. Who can afford a decent meal? As reported in the recent Reality of Food…
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The Future of Food in the Lincolnshire Fens
Fens workshop #2 22nd January 2024, Holbeach Workshops are by invitation, to ensure balance, to support continuity and to build on prior discussion. They will each be followed by online sessions that are open to all. If you would like to find out more, please email julienetienne.consult@gmail.com Fens workshop #1 Thursday 2nd November 2023, Holbeach…
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Baking with Diverse Grain
Baking using flour from diverse population wheat, from Turner’s of Bytham and South Ormsby Estate in Lincolnshire Photos from Lincolnshire Breadbasket event at Heckington Windmill on 3rd May, and sent by the bakers in the following weeks
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The Reality of Food Poverty in Lincoln
A new report shows a dramatic rise in the number of Lincoln residents needing emergency food parcels from the city’s food banks. The greatest increase is among households with children: children now account for 35% of all people fed by food banks in Lincoln. The two largest food bank networks in Lincoln provided almost 47,000…
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Thank you Ticky!
Ticky Nadal is stepping down from her role as Food Partnership Coordinator at the end of March, to focus more on her work at Board Director at Mint Lane CIC. Ticky has done so much for the Food Partnership, especially working with foodbanks and community larders across the county; reducing food waste; championing healthy diets…
