Lottery £50M Local Food Fund, supporting Manchester communities?
Submitted by rob on Sat, 19/07/2008 - 20:54
Report by Rob Squires on Manchester's new Food and Wellbeing Group
Creative Local Solutions have been commissioned by Manchester Food Futures to raise funds from the Big Lottery Local Food Fund, on behalf of the community and voluntary sector in Manchester.
Government sets out 21st century challenges for food in the UK
Submitted by rob on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 21:13
Food Matters: Towards a Strategy for the 21st Century
News release: Government sets out 21st century challenges for food in the UK
Forest gardening techniques on Leaf Street
Submitted by rob on Tue, 03/06/2008 - 18:00
Read this article to view photographs of comfrey planted as a living mulch around the base of eight year old fruit trees, in the forest garden area of Leaf Street community garden. The comfrey is successfully out-competing ground elder, and goose grass, as well as providing multiple other benefits as a mulch.
Leaf Street Community Garden - home of the worlds largest herb spiral - so big you can see it from outer space!
Submitted by rob on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 20:10Diet of Disaster
Submitted by rob on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 17:20
"Ultimately, if left unchecked, environmental degradation may threaten not only economic growth, and stability but the very survival of humans on the planet." UN FAO, Nov 06.
Notes on talk at Friends Meeting House, by Tony Wardle, associate director of Viva (Vegetarians International Voice for Animals), about the deadly interrelations of the Meat and Dairy industry, economic growth, and climate change. Meat and Diary production courses 18% of climate change, greater than the entire global transport industry (13.5%)
