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Celebrating the Good Food Movement in Lincolnshire:
Nourishing Our Community The Good Food Movement in Lincolnshire has been a beacon of community engagement and sustainable change. With events like the World Food Supper Club at Mint Lane Cafe and Edible Community Garden Tours, we’ve brought people together to celebrate diversity, promote sustainable eating, and strengthen our local food system. A Journey Through…
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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…
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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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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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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
