Author: Laura Stratford

  • Lincolnshire Food Summit 2023

    Lincolnshire Food Summit 2023

    This food summit aims to bring together Foodbanks, Community Groceries and organisations offering Food Support across Greater Lincolnshire to share ideas, best practice and develop solutions. As we all face the difficulty of sourcing food and supporting our communities we hope to support each other in finding solutions and collaborating.  The day will focus on…

  • Water

    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…

  • Celebrating Apples & Orchards

    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…

  • A Lincolnshire Breadbasket

    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…

  • The Grocery, Bardney

    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…

  • Maize Supper – SOLD OUT

    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

  • School food helps children thrive

    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.…

  • The value of food

    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…

  • The Future of Food in the Lincolnshire Fens

    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…

  • Baking with Diverse Grain

    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