We belong to a bigger network
Across the globe, communities at every scale have recognised the key role food can play in dealing with some of today’s most pressing social, economic and environmental challenges and are taking a joined up approach to transforming their food culture and food system.
Lincoln is one of those communities, and we are proud to be a network member of Sustainable Food Places.
Lincoln Food Strategy 2016
From obesity and diet-related ill-health to food poverty and waste, climate change and biodiversity loss to declining prosperity and social dislocation, food is not only at the heart of some of our greatest problems but is also a vital part of the solution.
A Sustainable Food Network
The Sustainable Food Places approach involves developing a cross-sector partnership of local public agencies, businesses, academics and NGOs committed to working together to make healthy and sustainable food a defining characteristic of where they live.
The Sustainable Food Places network helps people and places share challenges, explore practical solutions and develop best practice on key food issues.
If you would like to know more about the Sustainable Food Places network, please click here to be taken to their website.
Know your farmer, know your food
What happens when you invite 100 of the most visionary, inspiring and practical people working in food into the same room? This is exactly what we did on 14th May at the Lincolnshire Food Summit 2026: people working for a fairer, healthier, more resilient food in Lincolnshire, but in different parts of the system -…
Who cares what children eat at school?
School food is – rather too often – rubbish! School food standards are out of date and applied inconsistently at best. Pizza, chips and nuggets are the easy option – they’re cheap and popular with kids… but didn’t Jamie Oliver sort all this out 20 years ago? The truth is – speaking as a former…
Nourishing Lincoln
Who is paying the real price of cheap food? The cost of poor dietary health to the UK economy is £268bn a year, according to a recent report published by Food, Farming & Countryside Commission. That’s not far off 10% of GDP. Indicators for Lincoln show that dietary health here is worse than the national…