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Bread is a staple of diets around the world. In its simplest form, flour, water, salt and yeast (wild or manufactured) come together to make a nutritious food which can sustain us. However in recent decades the bread we eat in the western world has changed and that which we find on the shelves of our supermarkets contains many more ingredients, moving it far away from the four ingredient staple of our ancestors and into the world of ultra processed foods.
Almeley Screening of “The People’s Emergency Briefing”
I urge you to engage and encourage as many people as possible to see it.
We had 2 really fun school trips at the Gorringes inspiring Lower Blakemere farmthis summer. A huge thank you to Heather and Phil and their amazing team..
We had a sell out at our first Feast on the Farm event in collaboration with Herefordshire Meadows!
Wicton Farm, Bromyard, is an exemplar in high welfare, sustainable dairy farming and they need your help!
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We're looking forward to seeing Herefordshire Food Alliance members for an in-person, summer social on the evening of the 8th June.
With huge thanks to Lou and the Growing Local Team for having us!
We're delighted to share our booking link for our first feast on the farm which will take place on Wednesday 10th June from 5.30 - 8.30pm. Join us at Caradoc on the banks of the River Wye courtesy of Dreda Darling to enjoy a true field to fork experience.
England's Land Use Framework (LUF), is the government's first coordinated plan for how land across the country should be used. It sets out how land can best meet multiple demands - from food production to housing, major infrastructure, water management and nature recovery. The plan aims to manage competing demands, seeking multiple benefits for any location, and to make sure the right land uses are priortised in the right places, including considering any knock-on effects.
Farmers, conservationists and community members came together for a discussion on the topic of “Food vs. Nature?” hosted by Ledbury Food Group and Sustainable Ledbury. Panellists shared their insights and took questions from the floor, as the discussion explored some of the most complex challenges facing Herefordshire: how do we support thriving food production while restoring nature and protecting our rivers?
We recently announced our first date in the diary for our Feasts on the Farm project at Lower Blakemere Farm - exploring all things worms and composting, with HFA Feasts on the Farm to be serving up a delicious soup freshly made from local ingredients too!
Unfortuantely, due to circumstances beyond anyone's control, this event will now be postponed. We thank you for your interest, and will let you know as soon as we have more Feasts on the Farm dates to share.
This year’s Borderlines Film Festival — the UK's largest rural film festival — offered a rarebit treat: two short films from the BBC archives that reframed local food through a 50 year lens, and documented the role of food in local culture and identity.
The Herefordshire Healthy Schools Programme and the Healthy Tots Programme provide templates for teaching, planning, tracking and monitoring the health and wellbeing of children and young people in primary and secondary schools and early years settings.
This week there have been streams and lakes appearing where they have never, in my twenty years living in Herefordshire, been before. Driving anywhere has become what I imagine it’s like being in a monsoon; with pot holes becoming invisible in the multiple enormous puddles.
Apologies for the gloom in the two latest blogs. It must be the weather… But it's my personal plea to please let’s not continue burying our collective heads in the sand.
I want to draw your attention to two recently released reports. The first being the UK Climate Security Report, which has quietly been buried. You can read about it here.
The second is latest report by the Agri Food Network “Potential Pathways and Solutions to acute Food System Crises in the UK. Key points are here:
Guest blog from alliance member and farmer, Heather Gorringe... Herefordshire has been chosen as the pilot county for an exciting new regenerative farming programme supported by the Royal Countryside Fund, working with Herefordshire Rural Hub and the Regenified certification scheme – and that is something our whole county can be proud of.
We are recruiting!
Herefordshire Food Alliance is recruiting a coordinator.
We are delighted to annouce that Herefordshire Food Alliance has been awarded Awards for All funding from the National Lottery to fund our Farm Link - Feasts on the Farm project. Hurrah!
We enjoyed a great evening with Colwall Greener Group on the 2nd December where we ran a Food Conversation for 18 of their members.
We were delighted to attend the Sustainable Food Places Day of Action and Celebration in London last week. In attendance were 60 food partnership and community reps, 45 MPs, 19 people representing 8 food and farming NGOs (including SFP programme partners) and 2 civil servants. All in all a successful event for strengthening our network’s public affairs and advocacy voice and visibility.
Congratulations to the fantastic team behind the film, "Six Inches of Soil". They have been nominated for the BBC Food and Farming Awards Digital Creator" Award.
Hopefully you managed to get to one of the ten screeenings of the film that the Alliance organised throughout the county. The announcemnet will be made at the awards in Bristol on 18th November... watch this space.
The team are currently exploring regenerative dairy. Hear all about it on their podcast..