Local food
How to start an allotment
For guidance on how to start an allotment, including how to get your hands on a plot and what you can grow on them, we’ve found this great guidance from Channel 4. This article from the team behind River Cottage …
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Support for setting up a community shop
Community shops are a great way of getting the community together while encouraging people in your area to eat more locally grown food. There is a new programme that can help you, called Our Urban Shop, that can give you …
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Find local food projects with Project Dirt
Local food, from sustainable to seasonal is a major theme in many of the thousands of local projects Project Dirt facilitates across the UK, so you’re sure to find something that interests you to get involved in! Project Dirt is …
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List your local food project on Incredible Edible
Incredible Edible – the guerrilla gardeners taking over abandoned spaces with plants and crops – have a section on their website where you can promote your local food project. They want to put incredible local food back on every local …
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How to start a food co-op
Sustain have put together a Food Co-op Toolkit which has all the information you’ll need on how to set up a food co-op in your area. Food co-ops are a great way to save money on your weekly shop, while …
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How to start a foodbank
The Trussell Trust is the UK’s only nationwide network of foodbanks in the country. If you are thinking of starting a foodbank in your community, they can help your organisation or church get started. The Trussell Trust provides comprehensive ongoing …
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