by Simon Michaels | Mar 13, 2016
f3 director Simon Michaels also helps run award-winning @rmarketgarden. Latest venture is a successful market trial of winter salad crops. About 10 varieties of salad and stir fry crops are displayed in boxes of individual varieties, with customers creating their own mix, sold by weight. Everyone loves it and sales have been hot as mustard....
by lightgre | Jun 29, 2015
The aim of food planning is to ensure that our communities are healthy, that local economies benefit from a strong local network of food producers, distributors and retailers, and that our environment is safeguarded. Managing this complex web of interactions requires good leadership and clarity of process. To meet this need, f3 have developed and piloted ’Our Food Plan Toolkit’. This provides guidance to help all those involved in the process of mapping, planning and taking practical steps forwards, with an effective participatory approach. “Many thanks for this very impressive toolkit, which codifies an enormous stock of knowledge in a very user-friendly way..” Prof. Kevin Morgan, Cardiff...
by lightgre | Jun 29, 2015
f3 have carried out some research to try to find ‘hard evidence’ of the effectiveness of food plans. To date this kind of evidence is not strong. However, there good reporting on the diverse actions and initiatives that are part of a plan. Equally important is the ‘joined up thinking’ that gets generated between public health, economic development, education and parks officers, when meeting with community groups and businesses to discuss the local food economy; interesting and creative things start happening that help meet a wide range of aims and objectives. Read the full...
