Food in the Time of Corona and how to get us all vegetable growing…

Top Tips for growing your own veg and list of local delivery services

Sarah Bridle’s TED-x talk is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y7RHsXSW00

Food Group Meeting March 2020

Notes from TW FOOD GROUP meeting 27 March 2020

The newly invigorated food group met virtually and covered areas such as Meat Free Monday, how we access food in the time of corona, and vegetable growing. Check out garryosonfurniture on instagram for vegetable growing tips.

Food and Climate Change

Professor Sarah Bridle, Professor of Astrophysics at The University of Manchester has turned her attention to the carbon cost of the food we eat. The main messages are to reduce the shocking amount of food UK consumers throw away each week, and to reduce meat and dairy consumption, but it is quite complicated! Sarah recommends these resources to get you started:

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LOCAL FOOD

We support:

Incredible Edible Wilmslow – “replanting unloved plots in Wilmslow town centre with herbs, fruit and vegetables for everyone to enjoy”

STOPPING FOOD WASTE

Annual food waste from UK households, hospitality and food service, food manufacture and the retail and wholesale sectors amounts to around 12 million tonnes, valued at more than £19 billion.  For every two tonnes we eat, another tonne is wasted.

WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme) was set up in 2000 to promote sustainable waste management. “To safeguard UK food we need a step-change to increase sustainable food and drink production and consumption, conserve resources and combat climate change”. Dr Richard Swannell, Director of WRAP sustainable food systems.

Open Kitchen Manchester is a fantastic organisation…if you need catering for work or for a party, contact them….they convert food that would otherwise go to waste into delicious meals at a very reasonable cost that they deliver to your door. https://www.openkitchenmcr.co.uk/