For all Southend allotmentiers, back garden food producers, windowsill
herb growers, container gardeners, community food projects, chicken
keepers, beekeepers, local farmers, home jam makers, local food businesses, restaurants using local/organic produce etc
Join the 74 people on Facebook
Look around and you’ll find that Southend has a thriving food scene.
This
group will help connect the people involved and celebrate tasty,
healthy, local food – grown, picked, produced, cooked and eaten in
Southend!!!
Producing food in a sustainable way could be
Southend’s answer to the challenges of climate change, peak oil and the
casino – style economy reducing our carbon emissions and dependency on
oil imports, building a local food economy with new jobs and
opportunities and contribute to general health and wellbeing.
How this project could work out in the future:
Phase One:
-connect the local food growers, food lovers, food activists and food producers
Phase Two:
-people could meet up and start working on ongoing projects or start new ones
Phase Three:
-starting
a Southend Food Network and working on a Sustainable Food Strategy for
Southend following the example of
http://www.transitionbristol.net/?p=1965
Your ideas and involvement are welcome and needed.
Roles to be filled:
-officers-for
this group who could post updates on local food matters – if you are
involved in a local food project or want to keep others up to date
please send me a message
-officers-to send updates to the group on what to grow at what time, who could advise amateur food growers etc
Actions to do
– forward the link to this group to your friends and networks
– spread the word
Partner organizations, projects and businesses:
Southend in Transition
…get your group up here
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We (S E Essex Women’s Environmental Network) are in the early stages of planning a day to celebrate World Food Day on October 16 2010. The day will be the first of three events being planned by the WEN National Food Co-ordinator – the others will be in Yarmouth & Ipswich.
We’d like to involve anyone interested in food (growing it, cooking it, eating it!!) – All ideas, support, help, welcomed!
We are getting together on Sunday 25th April for a planning meeting when we will need to decide on the venue and programme.
If you’d like to be involved please phone Carol on 01702 342148