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Incredible Edible Shropshire is a new project setting up to encourage community gardening and to help people have more access to locally grown healthy food. If you want to know where you can grow more food and want to get involved with community growing visit www.facebook.com/IncredibleEdibleShropshire   

FoodCycle
The idea is simple. Food retailers throw out millions of tons of edible food every year due to supply overstock. The aim of FoodCycle is to redirect this food so it can be used to cook nutritious meals for people in the local community that do not have access to healthy foods for a variety of reasons, such as lack of income or knowledge of healthy nutrition.
http://www.foodcycle.org.uk
FareShare Community Food Network, a national UK charity supporting communities to relieve food poverty and food waste. Promotes the message that ‘No Good Food Should Be Wasted’.
http://www.fareshare.org..uk
Love food, hate waste is a national campaign to help reduce food waste, this is backed by the waste Department of Shropshire Council. www.lovefoodhatewaste.com

Eat the Seasons - A useful website with information and recipes for buying and eating food in season. www.eattheseasons.co.uk

Fish
Stocks of fish are low, world wide, due to overfishing, so check you are not eating at-risk fish. Fish farms, (fishes living in cages!) create pollution in rivers, seas, and lochs. Fishing practices and nets kill large numbers of seals, whales, dolphins, porpoises and albatrosses. The Marine Stewardship Council gives accreditation to sustainable and well managed fisheries.  www.msc.org
See www.fishfight.net   for Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's campaign against waste in the fishing industry, and for more ethical fishing practices.

Greenpeace,  www.greenpeace.org.uk/fishfight  is also very actively campaigning against the needless destruction and wastage of fish, due to unsustainable fishing methods.
You can order a free copy of 'The Pocket Good Fish Guide' from the Marine Conservation Society by e-mailing info@mscuk.org all fish-eaters should have it!
See the film 'The End of the Line' – a film about dwindling world stocks of sea food www.endoftheline.org  
 

Farmers Markets in Shropshire - are held at Bishops Castle, Craven Arms, Harper Adams, Ironbridge, Ludlow, Market Drayton, Much Wenlock,Oswestry, Shifnal and Whitchurch.  Shrewsbury's Farmers' Market is on the 1st Friday of the month (but 2nd Fri in Sept) in The Square.
Eat Shrewsbury -   www.eatShrewsbury.co.uk   - provides independent reviews and an interactive food map of Shrewsbury and the surrounding area. It shows you where to find farm shops, delicatessens, restaurants, sandwich shops, fishmongers, box schemes, farmers markets and more.
Heart of England Fine Food - Regional food group for the west midlands, working with food growers, producers and suppliers. Based in Shrewsbury. www.heff.co.uk 
The Slow Food Movement  celebrate quality and flavour in food  www.slowfoodludlow.org.uk

Permaculture
An ecological food growing system  www.permaculture.org.uk/default.asp

FOR INSPIRATION ABOUT WHAT THE COMMUNITY OF TODMORDEN HAS DONE WITH FOOD GROWING, SELLING AND EATING, LOOK AT THEIR WEBSITE AT WWW.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk

Best practice from an enterprise in Wakefield, Yorkshire:-
The ABLE Project  www.theableproject.org.uk is a not for profit company supporting social inclusion by providing guidance, training and employment opportunities to disadvantaged young people and offenders through its core activities of sustainable local food production and regenerating a former landfill site.
Other friends of the earth food websites:-
Bristol Foe    www.bristollocalfood.co.uk
Wycombe Foe   www.food-on-our-doorstep.co.uk