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BRISTOL FOOD NETWORK Bristol’s local food update community project news · courses · publications · events september–october 2011 One plea which always seems to emerge from local discussions about food, is that we could really do with a one-stop shop for all things food- related in Bristol. With your help, we hope the Bristol Food Network’s new online home at www.bristolfoodnetwork.org* will become part of that central resource. We’d like to hear from community groups about what would make your lives easier, about the one key thing that helped you to get started, about the how-to guide that really made sense, and about what still seems to be missing. We can’t promise that we’ll fix things right away, but it will give us a good idea of what needs to be fixed. Please email any suggestions for content of the November–December newsletter to [email protected] by 14 October. *Website launch date: 15 September. Bristol Independents Day We are asking all of Bristol to join us Why support local independent traders? at the start of British Food Fortnight The Who Feeds Bristol report has revealed: on 17 September to support Bristol’s Independents and… n Bristol has around 180 specialist independent food shops owned by 140 Try something local, from somewhere businesses that sell food from which local on Bristol Independents Day! you can cook a meal from scratch On the 17th, the Bristol Independents (includes bakers). campaign will launch a pilot project n 10 out of 35 wards have no greengrocer. highlighting 8 of Bristol’s local shopping n Half the wards have less than 10 areas on recipe postcards featuring independent food retailers. ingredients that can be purchased from n Specialist independent food shops local shops in each area. There will also are disappearing. They generally offer be a competition where you can nominate competitive prices, don’t charge a your favourite local food business, and in premium for small volumes and can turn, be entered into a prize draw to win respond to requests; many buy from local goodies. local suppliers. The initiative plans to include many more Bristol’s local food update is produced independent businesses and high streets How can I get involved? by the Bristol Food Network, with support in the coming months. The 17th is just Organise a local food event in your area from Bristol City Council. the beginning of a campaign to support on the 17th, let us know and we’ll include The Bristol Food Network is an umbrella Bristol’s local independent traders! it in our publicity. Otherwise, vist our group, made up of individuals, community projects, organisations Associated events and promotions will website (coming soon), take the ‘good and businesses who share a vision to be announced closer food’ pledge and enter our competion. transform Bristol into a sustainable to the day. Contact Jane Stevenson 0117 966 1639 food city. The Network connects people [email protected] working on diverse food-related issues – from getting more people growing, to www.bristolindependents.co.uk developing healthy-eating projects; from tackling food waste, to making Bristol more self-sufficient. On the web… Hungary to introduce a fat tax digest: Hungarian food manufacturers will have to pay a tax of 10 forint (€0.37) for foods bearing fat, sugar and salt at levels over a certain threshold. The Hungarian government says the tax will raise €70m per year – money which it says will offset public health costs of treating the consequences of high-fat, sugar and salt diets. www.beveragedaily.com/Regulation- Safety/Hungary-prepares-for- discriminatory-September-1-fat-ta x/?c=jrkd9eKIEpP7bRBV3sz4zw% 3D%3D&utm_source=newsletter_ daily&utm_medium=email&utm_ campaign=Newsletter%2BDaily Labour launches campaign to save our high streets School Food digest: Labour is launching a campaign to save Britain’s high streets, calling for Brentry Primary school has been the fruits and vegetables for cooking and urgent action to help retailers, protect jobs working with the Bristol Healthy Schools they have also requested the school cook and give people a real say over their local Team to achieve Healthy School Plus. to try them as part of the school lunch. high street. The school identified as a priority working “I didn’t know that marrows came in www.labour.org.uk/labour-launches- towards reducing childhood obesity in the different colours.” campaign-to-save-our-high- longer term. To take steps towards this the Callum streets,2011-07-25 whole school worked together to identify It has given children the opportunity to ways of increasing activity, empowering try fruits and vegetables they have never London schools sell home-grown the children (and staff) to make healthier tried before and any left over fruits and produce in Waitrose stores food choices and aim for 5 A DAY and vegetables are sent home to parents to getting the whole school on board with digest: Schoolchildren selling wonky ensure healthy lifestyle messages go growing fruit and vegetables. carrots and soil-encrusted radishes try further than the school classroom. to tempt Waitrose shoppers to reject the “It has been fun planting and growing in The work has been successful with supermarket’s washed, bagged versions our allotment. We had the chance to outcomes include achieving an overall and instead stock up on fresh produce taste different vegetables.” increase of 17% more children including grown by their local schools. Serena fruit and vegetables in packed lunchboxes, www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/ Work has included each year group in the but just as important is the fact that the jul/14/london-schools-produce- school having a small allotment to work in children report having fun learning about waitrose?CMP=twt_fd and to choose whatever they want to grow healthy lifestyle choices – whether it be – some years have a whole range of fruit in the garden, the cooking club or the Picturing World Agriculture and vegetables and some a mix of flowers classroom. digest: In the developed world, we and fruits but the thing that seems to run tend to assume that the solution to “I am thrilled about the way the through all groups is the growing, picking hunger elsewhere is always more allotments have enthused staff and and eating of strawberries. food production. But where and how children. We had an amazing and varied agricultural technologies are distributed The classes have some time out of class crop of vegetables and the children were has a greater effect than the technologies to work and learn in the garden, as well as all keen to try them raw and cooked.” themselves. curriculum activities which include healthy Angela Burridge, Headteacher food and lifestyle messages. The children http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/ Whilst Healthy School Plus status has are also encouraged to pick and prepare guest-blog/2011/08/11/picturing-world- been achieved the work described above agriculture/ is by no means complete, Angela Burridge the head teacher at Brentry commented National Farmers Market Week: Why the that this was only the start of the process Feds should support family farms “the work is now to be ongoing with the long term aim being that it is firmly digest: US farmers markets continue to embedded within the school culture and grow (150% increase in numbers since becomes the norm”. 2000) despite relatively little support from federal government. Rachel Cooke http://civileats.com/2011/08/12/ Healthy Schools Team, NHS Bristol national-farmers-market-week-why-the- feds-should-support-family-farms/ 2 bristol’S loCAL FOOD UPDATE · sePTEMBER–OCtober 2011 05210-tcf-1x3mbanner.pdf 26/8/09 11:23:51 csa news The Community Farm On 17 September 2011 The Community n A special day held for local chefs who £40,000 For an agricultural machinery Farm will hold its first Annual General were given the freedom of the farm to store providing storage space and basic Meeting open to all of its members. harvest a selection of the produce and facilities for staff and volunteers on site Nearly six months on from the Farm create a range of dishes. Cooking on a (subject to planning permission). raising £126,000 to take over an existing wood fire, they then came together to £30,000 For new equipment including organic vegetable box, wholesale and produce a menu that included a summer replacing our elderly tractor. growing business, a whole lot has been veg soup, a stir fry broccoli salad, a £30,000 To enable us to secure more going on! beetroot and onion chutney and a broad sustainable means of bringing visitors bean puree. Activities have included: to the site and to embark on plans for an educational facility. n Holding a special open day for our Join as at our harvest celebration investors in April when over 100 of our Saturday 17 September 2011 If you are interested in investing then 409 investors came to celebrate with us. Our harvest celebration will be held from please check the website there will be n Holding a midsummer picnic in June 12–5pm. Open to anyone (free entry for documents to download, or email and opening for the Chew Valley Lake members, £2 for non-members) there [email protected] Odyssey in July. will be farm tours, a talk by Elizabeth for details to be sent to you. Henderson author of ‘Sharing the n Launching an annual membership Community Farmer Days – come along to Harvest’, activities for children and food! scheme entitling members to 10% a volunteer day discount on their box orders – 25 new The AGM for members will take place The next community farmer days are on: members have signed up to this since between 2–3pm and non-members are July.