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Notes from the Tamar Valley
Food Partnership Coordinator, Laura Stratford, made a research trip to the Tamar Valley, an area of the country where the Open Food Network is being used to great effect, to see if Lincolnshire might take a leaf from their book… Accessing Local Food Lincolnshire produces a huge proportion of the nation’s food. But if we,…
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How to start a CSA
Lessons & updates from Ropsley Market Garden Ropsley Market Garden is Lincolnshire’s first Community Supported Agriculture project – a membership based market garden, in which the community plays a meaningful part in local food production. We are more than consumers! We blogged about Ropsley Market Garden CSA here last January, and wanted to find out…
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Welcome to our new Good Food Movement Coordinator
The Sustainable Food Places (SFP) vision of a healthy, sustainable, equitable food system is not one that will be achieved behind closed doors, on paper or in a queue; it will take shape in local communities, through sharing, learning, connecting and organising. The Good Food Movement Handbook, Sustainable Food Places Central to work of the…
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How to eat more plants
In terms of the health of our bodies and the planet, eating more plants – and a greater diversity of plants – is one of the best choices most of us could make. Whether you’re one of the hundreds of thousands of people taking the Veganuary challenge this year, or just want a delicious meal…
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Christmas Gift Guide 2022
20 ideas to get away from Christmas consumer spending and towards health, conviviality and a sustainable food system. Including: planning, planting, reading, sharing, eating, drinking and making merry!
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Middle World Farm
A Washingborough veg box Saturdays have become a day of unprecedented excitement in our house, and the explanation might surprise you: It’s veg box day. You can tell when the box has arrived, because the kitchen is suddenly heady with the fragrance of fresh *basil which is included in copious quantities. Sounds emerge from my…
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Edible Grimsby
#GrowCookShare in NELincolnshire On October 1st , several thousand people enjoyed a fun-packed, food-based celebration in Grimsby based on Growing, Cooking and Sharing. The celebration was the culmination of an 18-month long project called Edible Grimsby. The project worked with a variety of community groups in that time – largely but exclusively based in 6 Wards in…
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A Lincolnshire Seed Saver
A Legacy Imbued in the Seed A short film about beans Tamsin Leakey, a Lincolnshire grower and seed saver, tells the story of the work of her father and the development of the Leakey bean collection, in this beautiful film from the Gaia Foundation.
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What Lincolnshire can learn from Bornholm
Bornholm, known as Denmark’s Food Island, has a remarkable and vibrant network of small food producers. I spent a week at a summer school there, thinking about food, innovation and place-making. Here are five leaves I think we could take from their book: AHeritage-Gourmet Partnership A mutually beneficial partnership between the Agricultural Museum and Gourmet…