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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…
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Garibaldi Street Garden
Transforming a Grimsby car park Community groups are taking a grassroots approach to growing fresh food in a Grimsby neighbourhood at a time of rapidly rising food prices! Groups in the town’s East Marsh community are are set to create a new urban orchard and community garden in the Garibaldi Street Car Park in Grimsby.…
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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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Green Futures
As you can see from the photos, I visited Green Futures on the wettest day of the year. The damp and dreariness was fully matched by the warmth and cheerfulness of the volunteers, who got on amiably with tasks in the polytunnels, and lent me an umbrella for a guided tour in the pouring rain.…
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Friendship Through Food
With the invention of the modern day restaurant, communal dining had somewhat died out with the exception of celebration days and religious festivals. Even through the peaks and troughs of the last 2 years, venues are opening across Lincolnshire offering a new way of socialising that stem from ancient traditions; from ‘Ordinaries’ of the 17th…
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EcoSerenity Project CIC
A Community Farm Project for Better Mental Health How would you respond, if your day to day work brought you regularly in contact with people at the farthest ebb of their mental health, maybe even on the precipice of suicide? Andy, in his work at a local landmark, deals regularly with emotionally distressed individuals. His…
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