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Keep in touch with the Food Alliance Blog - sign up here Follow on Instagram here, Facebook here Here's where you can see what's happening for good local food in Herefordshire. From local food events, through farming to food waste - we use the Sustainable Food Places topics so you can see the things you're interested in at a glance. Click on each one for more information or scroll down the most recent. Contact us to tell us what's going on in your part of the County and sign the food charter to add your voice! |
Great to have the Herefordshire Council Public Health Team signed up to the Food Charter.
"Herefordshire Council Public Health team are supporting our local food vision by signing up to the food charter. As a team we are committed to supporting Herefordshire residents live healthy, active lives and understand the impact the local food system can have on health"
You can let them know what you think the focus should be for improving health and wellbeing in the county in this consultation. Perhaps a few ideas related to local food?!
Exciting News: Ledbury will hold its first Big Soup next month to celebrate local food and shine a big beaming light on the food charter.
Nourishing food using seasonal local produce that doesn't harm the pocket!
Sustain
are undertaking a snapshot survey to help assess the impact of rising food and energy prices on local food enterprises and other food organisations in our networks. The survey takes only 15 mins. Your responses will help inform calls to action for national and local policy makers to help the range of small and medium enterprises that support access to good food at this time of uncertainty and beyond.
Answer the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/food-SMEs2
To build the alliance right here in Herefordshire - sign the Herefordshire Food Charter and build the alliance for good local food
"Basically what we're doing here is trying to stop writing out cheques to people. Using the sun and the soil..."
It was such a pleasure to be taken around Billy's award winning Herefordshire farm. The Farm Carbon Toolkit's Soil Farmer of the Year at 25 years old - the whole thing was an inspiration!
Through changing some of their farming methods for methods that 'regenerate' the soil, the farm has more than halved its nitrogen fertiliser use, which has meant a drastic drop in outgoings and a big increase to the health of the soil.
Growing Local's next Big Eat will be on Saturday 22nd October 10am-2pm
Featuring oodles of local food cooked up by you, a great opportunity to see what's possible here in Herefordshire and enjoy an amazing meal too.
Check out this rocket...
The Pedicargo gang are now trialling food waste collection and feeding this beast - the Tidy Planet Rocket Composter. The rocket speedily breaks down food waste (collected by bike) into nutrient and microbe packed compost that can be put back into the soil right in the city it came from!
Do you know other food waste initiatives in other parts of Herefordshire? Join the alliance and we can link it all up!
KS2 Workshop - The Big Soup
Growing Local CIC are currently designing a brand new workshop to take into primary schools this winter.
"The Big Soup will be talking around the subjects of climate and food through the medium of making a hearty pot of healthy homemade local soup.
Local Cheese Experts Monkland Dairy have a great opportunity for you. They have been producing high quality cheese with local Herefordshire milk just outside Leominster for many years and are keen to pass this on.
Your opportunity
They have plenty of stock - available here and in their cafe which plans to continue , and are very open to another enterprise using the premises where they have left off.
Thanks for siging the Herefordshire Food Charter, Tuston Farm! Supplying freshly grown organic produce locally, through a veg box scheme, farmers markets, directly to food businesses and through farm shops.
Alice has transformed an 8 acre arable field into a brand new, organically certified, Market Garden and wildlife haven. She's in her fourth growing year on this site, alongside Dom who is an ecologist and keen on creating a meadow and encouraging wildlife along with the tasty veg.
Veg pick ups are in Tarrington, Ledbury, Hereford and Ashperton - and you can find them also at Farmers Markets in Bromyard, Knightwick and Ludlow.
THANKS FOR COMING! EVENT WRITE UP HERE
Are you a farmer, grower, producer or caterer here in Herefordshire? Do you know who could use your surplus food, where to take it and how to do it economically?
Come to a networking event to prevent food becoming waste and get it on to the county's plates!
- Green Dragon Hotel, Hereford
- 10th November 2022 3-5.30pm
October is Herefordshire's month! Here is a flavour of some of the juicy apple events around the county.
If you are hosting an event or visiting one, please help spread the news of the Herefordshire Food Charter and encourage signups!
What would free school meals do for Herefordshire?
We have food banks and community larders across the county working to support people struggling to make ends meet. Most say that supply is outstripping demand right now.
What if they could bank on every primary school child having a great meal every day?
100 civil leaders, including Sustain, are calling for this with a petition that you can sign too.
Thanks for signing the Charter Lane Cottage Produce - brilliant to have you in the alliance! Pesticide-free salad leaves here in Herefordshire.
Check out their Instagram for more info and their website for details of where you can buy their tasty leaves.
And sign the charter here to support sustainably grown local food!
The cruffins have JOINED the Alliance! Thanks for signing the Herefordshire Food Charter Peter Cooks Bread, organic award-winning real bread here in Herefordshire.
"We’re passionate about making bread that tastes great, is good for you and helps the local community.
Every loaf that comes out of our oven is made slowly by hand, using just four ingredients - flour, water, yeast (mostly wild) and salt."
Join Peter and sign the charter for a stronger alliance for great sustainable food production here in Herefordshire.
Stockists here
Spotlight on the Suppliers list at Trumpet Tearooms - between Ledbury and Hereford on the A438.
A clear list of all things local, and extra information on request.
Their Peter Cooks 'Cruffins' are getting a lot of love on Tripadvisor!
Do you know of a local suppliers list to rival this one? Please send us a photo and we'll feature it!
Kids Kitchen Herefordshire are Recruiting: both trainees and sessional workers for their zero waste, from scratch family food activities.
They say: "We are looking to expand our Herefordshire Hub with NEW sessions in NEW venues run by NEW session leaders!
We have been fortunate enough to receive some funding from the Herefordshire Community Foundation’s Resilience Fund meaning we are able to recruit and train some new Herefordshire session leaders in the coming months FOR FREE – could you be one of them?!
Join our Alliance members Growing Local at another Big Eat on Saturday - this time with a Mediteranean theme. Cooking from scratch and creating simple food for all together. Also a good chance to talk to Pat and Louisa about the Food Charter!
Saturday 10th September 10-2
Ethos and the Living Room are creating a network of Community Larders across the county, building on their work of food surplus redistribution over the past few years. More about this initiative to join up great projects in Herefordshire soon!
They are recruiting for a Coordinator for this Community Food Larder work.
Clare and Phillippa from the Council's Health and Wellbeing teams are heading to the River Carnival this weekend for a few food waste demos.
The connection between food and the health of our rivers has become all too obvious recently so it's great to keep that connection going and explore how everyone can reduce the amount that's wasted in our kitchens, saving money too.
What they say:
"Some spuds. Half an onion. And various bits and bobs from the bottom of your fridge.
Those ingredients may not sound particularly appetising. But less-than-tantalising bits and bobs are all that’s needed to create a tasty meal. At least they are if you know what you are doing.
An amazing array of our county's best local producers and makers will be serving the best on the bank holiday weekend in the heart of Hereford. The Hereford Indie Food Festival is back after - unbelievably - FIVE YEARS!
"Hereford Indie Food is (unsurprisingly) all about great independent food + drinks businesses based out of Hereford and beyond. This year we welcome some titans of the Herefordshire food scene and our street food market is going to be fantastic!"
