Growing Communities | Eat the Earth

I had a lovely day at the Making Local Food Work conference in Manchester on Wednesday. I met some great people, heard from some inspirational speakers (in particular Charlotte Hollins from Fordhall Farm, Kath Dalmeny from Growing Communities/Sustain and Vicki Hird a food campaigner), ate a delicious lunch and came away with what I hope is a better understanding of where my local ‘Low Carbon’ group should head on food related matters.

Making Local Food Work also launched their new report called ‘Local food and climate change – the role of community food enterprises’ – you can download a copy from their website here.

I also won something! Which doesn’t seem to happen very often but when it does is a lovely surprise. I won a copy of a new book called ‘Stuffed – positive action to prevent a global food crisis’ from EcoCentric. I hadn’t read anything about the book, but it turned up in the post yesterday and have had my nose buried in it.

It is a great read with some fantastic (and shocking) facts and well worth getting yourself a copy if you’re interested in food. You can get yourself a copy from the online shop at the Soil Association’s website. Get reading!