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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
Appleyards High Street also in Market hall 01743 240180 |
Bread and LoafArtisan Bakery in the heart of Shrewsbury. Open Thurs. Fri. Sat. from 10-00 a.m 7 Castle Gates 01743247257 |
Coffee GroundsYou can ask Starbucks, and now, Ginger and Co Coffee in Princess St. for theirs, to take home to add to compost. Also said to be a good slug repellant in small quantities! Ask other cafes, to encourage composting! You can also grow oyster mushrooms on old coffee grounds
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Entertaining ElephantsWholefoods and local breads. Fair trade rugs and goods Church Stretton 01694 723922 |
fairtrade town ShrewsburyGroup who encourage fair trade in Shrewsbury. (Buy itemsfrom stall in Market Hall). Any retail or catering outlet selling 4 or more products may notify the group to maintain the 'Fairtrade' logo. Contacts: Ken and Meriel Chippindale 01743 365591 |
Fordhall FarmA small but beautiful organic farm in Shropshire owned by 8000 people! England's first community-owned farm. Arthur's Farm Kitchen serves Full English or a hot lunch; all ingredients are sourced organically or locally.
Market Drayton 01630 638696 office / 01630 317531 shop |
Good Life Coffee Shop & RestaurantHealthy, nutritious environmentally friendly food. Take-away & party food available too. Find : Goodlife Facebook Barracks Passage (off Wyle Cop) 01743 350455 |
Great Ness Oil Moor Farm Shop, Baschurch 01939 262632 |
Incredible Edible TodmordenThis positive and imaginative community effort into growing fruit flowers and veg, all over the town, started in 2008, and aims to increase the amount of local food grown and eaten. Local businesses, schools, farmers and the whole community are all involved, school children are even growing greens in the graveyard near their school. So. learning, growing eating and sharing all going on in an ad hoc way - this has inspired communities all over the world.
Todmorden, |
Smiling Tree FarmProduce Raw Milk and Beef from 100% grass-fed animals. Chapel Lawn Bucknell, Shropshire |
Soil AssociationPromotes organic principles. Runs certification scheme for growers and suppliers. |
The Real Milk coRaw milk, and other dairy products, direct from the farmer....Free range cows.....Longnor nr. Shrewsbury Frodesley Lane 01743 627788 |
