If you’re interested in how farmstart projects get going, read this fanatstic short blog from Catherine Howell, coordinator of the Middlesbrough Farmstart project. To connect with Catherine go to: https://www.facebook.com/BarefootKitchenCIC/ Farmstart Middlesbrough ‘23 kicked off this January with a small cohort of six participants raring to go! This is our second year. The group come […]
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Open Food Network workshops in Lincolnshire – 26 January 2023 By Laura Stratford (Lincolnshire Food Partnership Coordinator): We’re still buzzing from the conversations led by Nick Weir about developing local food networks and food hubs in Lincolnshire. 25 people travelled from across the county (Greater Lincolnshire is MASSIVE!) and gathered at Mint Lane Cafe in
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Farmers and environmentalists agree – food security is only possible if farming is environmentally sustainable Deliberative workshop reveals farmers are on board with climate and nature goals https://www.ippr.org/blog/food-security-is-only-possible-if-farming-is-environmentally-sustainable New, refreshing, from-the-horses-mouth research from IPPR makes for uplifting reading amongst so many negative messages about the UK’s food and farming sector. The research is ongoing and
‘Over and over we heard how they love their work’. Read More »
After two wonderful years of developing UAC, building community and understanding in the realm of urban agriculture in the UK, we are sorry to say that our core funder, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation won’t be funding us beyond our initial 3 years. They have said that it is due primarily to their funding priorities changing. We
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Ffinlo Costain hosted Jeremy along with the brilliant Rachel Hammond from Edge in Oxford to discuss all things Urban Food. Episode 71. 5th July 2022.
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7-18 November in Egypt. There’s huge momentum building and increasingly urgent demands to change the world’s food systems, and to get sustainabale regenerative food systems endorsed as an outcome of COP 27 – agroecology in a nutshell. A never ending flow of articles highlights the problems caused, for example, by an expansion of meat production
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Policy Influencers Network Group – Thursday 17 November Our recent Policy Influencers Network Group #5 in September focussed on Food Hubs. Participants from across the UK heard from Nick Weir at the Open Food Network about recent developments and advice on how to join the Open Food Netwrok’s on-line platform. You can watch the recording
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On Weds 8th June 2022 we held our second Wider Interest Network Group (WING).The purpose of this annual session is to look back at the year gone by and look forward to What Next? We shared the results of our evaluations of our work and our governance, and heard from practitioners in the field of
WING #2 . Reflections on Year 2 of the UAC. Read More »
‘Ideal planning policy that supported local food production? A policy that integrates biodiversity increase with food production increase and comprehensively covers production, grower employment right through to supply chain and community needs’. ‘Biodiversity enhancement and local sustainable food growing should be an overarching priority in all local authority strategic policies, including local planning strategies’. Participants
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Regenerative Agriculture has a big Race and Equity issue, and it’s not going away anytime soon Article in Will + Good by Laura Fisher. April 2022 The Urban Agriculture Consortium is quite new and quite small. Members are also mostly somewhere on a spectrum of white and middle class. As part of our journey, we
True Regenerative Agriculture is Colourful and deeply just. Read More »