22 pages packed with local food news for the harvest months. CSA news · South Gloucestershire Taste festival · Fairtrade update · Todmorden thoughts · Say No to Tescos · Dig Bristol · Montpelier Bean Feast · Courses for the Autumn, and much, much more…
Bristol’s local food update Sept-Oct 10
The July–August issue of the Bristol Food Network’s e-newsletter is now available for download. It contains lots of events listings, allotment growing tips, details of how you can get involved in local land-planning issues, and much much more.
Bristol’s local food update July-Aug 10
In the May–June issue we focus on community-supported agriculture, and the projects getting growing around Bristol. A CSA is a great way to get physically involved in farming, to secure your own supply of local produce AND probably most important of all, to guarantee a secure market for a local producer. And now is a great time to get involved.
Bristol’s local food update May-June 2010
Spring is springing, and it’s time to get growing. Get involved with one of Bristol’s many local growing projects. Download the latest issue of Bristol’s local food update newsletter here:
Bristol’s local food update Mar-Apr 2010
Happy New Year!
The January–February issue of Bristol’s Local Food Update is now available for download.
This issue has plenty of news from people working and volunteering in local food projects, events and course listings for late winter/very early spring, plus plenty of further reading suggestions while it’s still too dark or frozen to do much growing.
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The November-December issue of Bristol’s Local Food Update is now available for download.
This issue has details of lots of courses, talks and film-screenings for the coming couple of months, plus links to lots of reading to fill those dark winter months.
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The attached September-October issue of Bristol’s Local Food Update has details of all the food festival and harvest events that are coming our way over the next few weeks, plus loads of cultivating courses for the autumn.
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The July-August issue of Bristol’s Local Food Update is now available for download.
This issue focuses on a Sustainable Food Strategy for Bristol. Two years in the making, this Strategy has the ambition to transform the city into a model of local food production, distribution and retail – but does the city have the ambition to live up to the plan? Read on to see how you can help to make it all happen.
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The May-June edition of Bristol’s Local Food Update shines the spotlight on how Bristol’s Green Belt and agricultural hinterlands are increasingly being given over to development in the pursuit of further economic growth (largely in response to central government targets), despite the increasing imperative to save our soils for food production.
We all need to act now to ensure that Bristol City Council ring fences all suitable land for food production: read on and stay in touch to find out how to make your voice heard.
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The newsletter on all things food in Bristol has been given a new look. The newsletter is a space to share information about community projects, to promote courses, events, training & skill-sharing, and advertise jobs & volunteering positions. To have the newsletter delivered to your inbox, send an email to claire.milne_at_bristol.gov.uk with a subscription request (to email, replace _at_ with @). Or return here at the beginning of May, and there should be a new newsletter on the site.
I can’t recommend this book strongly enough at the moment:
River Cottage Handbook No.2: Preserves
by Pam Corbin
Bloomsbury ISBN 978-0-7475-9532-8
All the recipes are arranged seasonally – so in February you can make preserved lemons, lemon squash and marmalade, while lining-up the early UK rhubarb for making jam and chutney.
A beautiful, unique and inspirational wall hanging calendar has been produced especially for the Bath community and its neighbours. Sown, grown, harvested, photographed, designed and printed in Bath, the intention is to celebrate local achievement.
10.30am–2pm, Saturday 13 October
13 October is the date for the first ‘Best of Bedminster Show’ being held on North Street Green, 10.30am to 2pm that Saturday. The show will be an urban ‘Village Show’, designed to allow local people to show their growing, culinary and creative prowess in a number of categories. The event is being organised by Climate Action Bedminster.
10am–4.30pm Saturday 29 September, Filwood Community Centre
The Knowle West Media Centre, and other local groups, are organising this FREE festival to showcase all the great food related work going on in the community.
This one-day festival links the themes of art, health and the environment through food. We will celebrate local skills and experience and Knowle West as a leader in community communications.
10am–6pm Saturday 1 September and 10am–5pm Sunday 2 September, Bristol Harbourside. £3.50 admission, or volunteer for the Bristol Friends of the Earth stall, and get in for free. See you at Stand 46 in Millennium Square. Ffi www.soilassociation.org.uk/festival
A new Local Produce Market has been organised at Westbury-on-Trym Primary School, Channells Hill. It will be held on the 4th Saturday of each month and will start on September 22nd from 10am–1pm. We hope to have a variety of local farmers and food producers, including meat, vegetable, bread, cakes soup and honey and more.
For more information please contact Myra Jones 0117 9504238
The Organic Directory South West edition for 2007/8 is now available. Produced by Organic South West, a regional Soil Association office, the guide lists markets, box schemes, farms, shops, cafés and restaurants by sub-region: Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire.
Copies are available in organic shops around Bristol, or by phoning 01208 78988.
You can also see the directory on-line at www.organicsouthwest.org
Lockleaze Community Market is now every Saturday 9.30am–12.30pm
The Cameron Centre, Gainsborough Square.
North Bristol Artists and The Prom are supporting Bristol Friends of the Earth &
Amnesty Bristol
Support these local organisations and have the chance to win one of two outstanding original paintings donated by local artists, Feona Ness and Shelley Davies.
Paintings can be viewed at The Prom – just walk in from Monday 6 November.
Sale by raffle, £1 per ticket at The Prom.
All proceeds direct to the two charities.
Bristol Friends of the Earth and the Folk House Café are proud to present…
A LOCAL FOOD EVENING
7.30pm Saturday 30 September
The Folk House, 40a Park Street, Bristol
Tickets £10
to include a Local Food buffet prepared by Liz Haughton (Folk House Café)
& talks by Bristol’s Local Food pioneers:
Phil Haughton (Better Food Company)
Barny Haughton (Quartier Vert, Bordeaux Quay)
Local drinks available at the bar
All profits go to Bristol Friends of the Earth’s Local Food campaign
Tickets available from the Folk House Café, or by post.
Send cheques made payable to Bristol Friends of the Earth, along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: Bristol Friends of the Earth, c/o 20 Beauley Road, Southville, Bristol BS3 1PY
Ffi email info@bristolfoe.org.uk or phone 0117 966 1639
The Whiteladies Farmers Market is coming back on August 24, 8.30 till around one o’clock, at the corner of Whiteladies Road and Apsley Road. It is organised by a local residents group, Sustainable Redland.
Now running regularly on the first Friday and third Saturday of the month, this market started in the summer of 2006 and is going from strength to strength
B.O.G.O.Fs bring you…
A Public Meeting:
Does Gloucester Road need another supermarket?
NO!
We already have…
Tesco x 3
Somerfield x 2
Sainsburys
Waitrose
Co Op
… All within a 1.5 mile radius
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!
Wednesday 21st June 2006
Meet us at the Art shop/studio (next to Bobby’s shop) Derby Road,
St. Andrews at 7.30pm to discuss what we can do to contest the proposed development.
Visit www.bogofs.org for more information.
Sustainable Redland organises a Farmers’ Market for north Bristol.
This takes place on the first Friday of every month from 8am until 2pm. It is held at the junction of Apsley Road and Whiteladies Road. The traders sell low packaged, locally grown and locally produced goods.
Reviews in the Local Food Directory are submitted to Bristol Friends of the Earth by members of the public. While we do our best to check the accuracy of any factual information in the reviews, any opinion expressed in the review is that of the reviewer him/herself, and does not represent an official endorsement or criticism by Bristol Friends of the Earth. If you feel that a reviewer has been inaccurate or unfair, why not submit your comments on their review?