FORTHCOMING EVENTS
Food for the Future?
An open day at the Down to Earth Community Farm www.bigbarn.co.uk
Saturday June 13th from 10.3
Come and discover how you and your family can eat good, ethical, and healthy food on a budget
Last year the food industry faced price hikes around the globe, and experts tell us that is likely to be the future. For years supermarkets have been able to set the prices for products, whether they come from the UK or overseas. Now, farmers' markets are making a resurgence and fair trade has become a household name. But can this survive the "credit crunch"?
A lot of people think that on a tight budget you can't eat good quality food, but that's simply not true. Food for the Future? aims to show how you can care about issues like fairness to the producer, pollution or land degradation without breaking the bank. We'll be giving tips, techniques, and even recipes about how to eat good, ethical, and healthy food on a budget.
- Opening ceremony by Georgina Windsor, Radio Solent gardening expert and host of "Grow it, cook it, eat it", who will take gardening questions for a future programme
- Cookery demonstrations by Kate Hughes of Cook Academy: www.can'tboilanegg.com, and tastings of her delicious results
- 'Grow your Own' workshops including urban permaculture and container gardening
- Wide range of Fair Trade products for sale
- Local organic food for sale from Sunnyfields Organic Farm: www.sunnyfields.co.uk/
- Short films on ethical food issues
- Tours of the farm and garden
- Refreshments available
Down to Earth Community Farm is on the lower school site of the Oasis Academy Lordshill
A short walk from several bus stops including: Bluestar No. 4 and 18, First No. 8/8A. Parking is available on the school site
Entry free
Disabled access
The New Forest Food Challenge: Eat local, grow local
Challenging individuals, families, schools, colleges and businesses in the New Forest area to find ways of using more local food produce.
The New Forest Food Challenge is a project run by the New Forest Transition Hub. It encourages people to buy local produce; get involved in growing food – in your garden, on an allotment, in a community garden; help others - schools, community groups - to learn how to grow; share your favourite seasonal food recipes; try out ways to reduce your food waste.
For dates and details of specific events relating to the Challenge, and to exchange ideas and experiences, go to the New Forest Challenge interactive website: www.newforesttransition.org/foodchallenge",
By encouraging people to take these kinds of action you can help prepare the New Forest to meet the demands that the future will bring, to reduce its lower its overall energy use and carbon emissions, and so move towards more sustainable lifestyles.
The New Forest Food Challenge is a project of the New Forest Transition Hub and is part funded by the New Forest National Park Authority’s Sustainable Development Fund.
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