Northern cluster - Urban Agriculture Consortium

Event: building real food and farming systems in northern cities. 14th Sept 10am-12.30pm

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It really great to see our northern pathfinder cities sharing a platform to talk about their experiences and challenges in building real food and farming systems. Buy tickets here on Eventbrite. This virtual workshop will use case studies and presentations to: Explain how urban farms can contribute to our food supply and food sovereignty aims, […]

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Sheffield

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I’m hearing that what we need is land, training, investment…Changing the culture of the council, getting officers on side, these are some of the things we can do. We’re passionate about it, and up for it. Alison Teal, Sheffield Council lead on Sustainable neighbourhoods, wellbeing, public health, allotments’. Fringe Farming event July 2021. There are

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Nottingham

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Already has a Well Being Design Guide approved by the City Council, and now with ambitious plans to transform a derelict shopping centre into a regenerative urban agriculture, biodiversity, co-housing and job creation area.

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Middlesbrough

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One of the cities in receipt of Climate Action Fund, plans for a farmstart project.

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Lancaster

Northern cluster / Webmistress

A citizens’ jury has approved local food growing as a key response to climate emergency and a farmstart project us being formulated. The work of Food Futures – Lancaster’s Food Partnership, is exemplary in it’s co-creative approach and its commitment to looking systemically at problems and solutions and foregrounding inclusion and equality. As a result

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