National & global food news, issues and campaigns, and food organisations we support and work with towards a greener, fairer, healthier food economy.
The Open Food Network
The Open Food Network (OFN) is a not-for-profit, open source software platform that enables farmers, growers and community food enterprises to sell produce online. The software is designed to foster co-operation, collaboration and fairness in the food system. Read more…
Food Ethics Council
A charity that provides independent advice on the ethics of food and farming, with the aim of creating a food system that is fair and healthy for people, animals and the environment.
Food Citizenship
A project from the Food Ethics Council: How thinking of ourselves differently can change the future of our food system.
Lincoln Climate Commission
The climate commission – a collaboration between stakeholders across Lincoln and Lincolnshire – is working on a road map to achieve the City Council’s target of net zero carbon by 2030.
The Trussell Trust
Our aim is to end hunger and poverty in the UK. We support a nationwide network of food banks and together we provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty, and campaign for change to end the need for food banks in the UK.
Incredible Edible
A network of food groups, with a vision to create kind, confident and connected communities through the power of food.
Sustain
A multitude of different projects and campaigns to improve food and farming, with the help of our members and other supporters.
FareShare
FareShare is the UK’s national network of charitable food redistributors, made up of 17 independent organisations. Together, we take good quality surplus food from right across the food industry and get it to almost 11,000 frontline charities and community groups.
The first major review of our food system in 75 years.
Read our response to it here.
Making it happen in Lincoln
Local food news from our blog
Three High Street Bakers
Most of us in Lincolnshire, most of the time, consume uniform baked products, produced on an industrial scale by workers we will never meet. But it’s not the only choice available to us. We went to meet three highly skilled and passionate bakers, who are baking fresh each day on Lincoln High Street. It’s a […]
Fringe Farming
For fruit and vegetable crops – I’m talking the 7-a-day stuff that most of us need way more of in our diets – it’s a completely different story.
Just a few acres, with polytunnels or glasshouses require constant tending, and can employ numerous people doing skilled, interesting, rewarding, socially useful jobs.
Fruit and vegetables don’t necessarily need much processing before they reach our plates. We want to eat them fresh – the fresher the better!
It would make sense, then, that the most labour intensive, perishable, unprocessed foods are grown in close proximity to urban areas.
We Won Bronze!
Greater Lincolnshire has become the latest place to win a prestigious Sustainable Food Places award. The award recognises Greater Lincolnshire Food Partnership’s work to promote healthy, sustainable and local food and to tackle some of today’s greatest social challenges, from food poverty and diet-related ill-health to the disappearance of family farms and the loss of […]
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