Workshop held by the B&H Food Partnership and Food Matters to explore how we can eat more local food in Brighton & Hove. Click here for more info (or click the image to see the flier). Places are limited so please book by calling 01273 431700 or emailing ann*at*bhfood.org.uk.
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Workshop: Harvest Brighton & Hove – Wed 4 Jun
Meeting: Food group – Tue 3 Jun
7:30pm, on Tuesday 3 June, at Simon’s House – 7 Beaufort Terrace in Hanover (map). Please bring a dish to share (vegan and veggie only please). Agenda to follow nearer the time.
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Open Day: Whitehawk Community Food project – Sun 25 May
Site tours, food around the bonfire and more. At the project’s site on Whitehawk Hill. Please visit www.thefoodproject.org.uk for more details and directions.
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Open Day: Moulescomb Forest Garden – Sat 10 / Sun 11 May
Moulsecoomb Forest Garden and Wildlife Project Open Day 10th and 11th May, 1-5pm
There will be tours on the hour every hour, freshly cooked food and refreshments, bug hunts, childrens art workshops, plants and seeds for sale. See the outdoor classroom, clay oven, wattle and daub building, outlawed vegetables, wildlife pond - and spend a penny in our compost loo. All for free.
The event is part of the Brighton Festival Fringe and is one of the BBC Breathing Places open wildlife gardens.
For more information about the project and directions www.seedybusiness.org
Meeting: Food group – Tue 6 May
The next Food Group meeting is on 6 May at 7:30 at Jiva's house - 97 Hanover Terrace
We thought it would be fun - and fitting - to enjoy some food at this meeting. Please bring something to share - vegan and veggie food only please. There are some vegans in the group, so it would be nice to have an even spread!
At the meeting we will discuss the following:
- forming a monthly programme of events. the events will focus on particular skills: bread making, food foraging, backyard gardening, etc. we'd like to decide on the first three to go into the next Transition B&H events programme.
- awareness raising - what can we do to raise awareness of Transition B&H and food issues? One suggestion was to have a stall at the farmers' markets around B&H.
- engaging with other groups doing food work - at a recent Transition B&H meeting, it was suggested that the different interest groups need to find out more about and engage with other groups doing work in their area. At the last meeting we thought the Food Group could send an introductory letter to different groups across the city involved with food work. A draft letter will be brought to the meeting for comment.
On this occasion, it would be great if you could send a quick email to food*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk to say if you can make the meeting so we know roughly how many to expect!
Meeting: Food group – Tue 22 April
The meeting will take place Tuesday the 22nd of April, 7:30pm, upstairs at the Earth and Stars pub on the corner of Church Road and Windsor Street (map).
The Food Group held its first event, an awareness raising event called From Planet to Plate: think global, eat local, on Saturday the 12th of April. The event went well after a slow start, but there are surely lots of lessons to be learned. Therefore we’d like to hold a meeting to discuss how it went, what we could do better next time, etc. We’ll also be discussing what our next steps should be.
I realise that this is very short notice – many apologies, we’ll give better notice in future – but everyone is most welcome to come take part, whether or not you were involved on the 12th. We felt it important to hold a meeting sooner rather than later so we could have a de-brief and get some feedback. Please join us if you can! More details: food*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk
From Planet to Plate: Think Global, Eat Local – Sat 12 April
Come to learn more and to share your knowledge about the issues effecting the food we eat. This day-long event is a part of Transition Brighton & Hove's free school programme. It will be a day of talks, participatory workshops, a recipe swapping session, seed planting demonstrations, a screening of the Future of Food, informational stalls, fun activities for children, and a home-made, local, organic and vegan lunch. Tea and cake served all day. Entry free, donations welcome. For more information please email food*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk.
Meeting: Food group – Tue 11 March
At 7.30pm at the Earth and Stars pub, Church St (map). All welcome. For more information contact food*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk
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Food Sovereignty workshop and live music – Sat 8 March
Movingsounds are hosting a Food Sovereignty workshop and live music event on Sat 8th March at Hanover Community Centre, Brighton (map). Click on the flyer for more details.
There will be a participatory workshop with info about what food sovereignty is and speakers about projects internationally and locally. This will be followed by food then live music.
There will be people wanting to learn as well as people already running related projects. We hope to give people an introduction to global and local food issues as well introduce existing projects.
Other groups speaking will be:
World Family (on international food issues)
Trapese: (on globalisation and food)
Movingsounds (getting everyone involved and inspired!)
Transition Town Lewes (Moving Sounds made the Transition Town Lewes introductory film)
For more info call Caspar on 07753 278492
Free Permaculture and Transition Town short film showings – Sun 2 March
From 10:30–2pm at Ralli Hall Farmers Market, Denmark Villas, Hove (just round the corner from from Hove station) – we will be inviting farmers market shoppers to grab a cup of tea, come and sit in the warm and learn about sustainable methods of growing food/the Transition concept.
For more information call 07958 964810
Brighton and Hove Farmers Market contact details: 01273 323200.
www.Brightonfarmersmarket.com
Future dates for the market (first Sunday of every month) 10 a.m. till 2 p.m.:
April 6, May 4, June 1, July 6, August 3, September 7
Food group meeting – Mon 11 February
Notes by Ann Baldridge
Present: Jo, Viv, Ann, Simon B, Simon P, and Andi
The meeting focused on our plans to hold our first event – a big day dedicated to raising awareness about food issues and sharing practical skills.
Venue: Given that we have no funding yet, we need to find a venue that is central but free of charge to hire, or who would agree to host the event for us. The Cowley Club was suggested. Other ideas were Friends Meeting House, though we understand their hire fee is above and beyond what we could afford. Ann will contact them to explore whether they might be willing to make an exception with their hire fee. The Brighton Peace and Environment Centre was also suggested but it was thought that this venue might be too small, but also may put some people off coming, especially those who don’t associate themselves with being an ‘environmentalist’. Cowley Club’s central location, good level of passing traffic and the fact that it doesn’t charge a hire fee put it at the top of the list. We will confirm the venue at the next meeting.
Action: Ann to contact Friends Meeting HouseActivities
Seed planting sessions: the Whitehawk Community Food Project have agreed to run two sessions: one around seed planting and another on picking out and re-potting. They can supply seeds and compost. We will either ask people to bring their own pot (or even a yogurt tub) or see if any of the gardening centres can donate pots to us.
Action: Simon P to plan the seed sessions.
Lunch: Jo suggested we have a lunch break with home-cooked, local food. The Cowley Club has a kitchen we can use to prepare a lunch for participants on the day. We would charge about £2.50 to recoup the costs of food and to hopefully generate a small amount of funds for the group.
Action: Simon Powell to ask Simon Parker if he would be up for leading on the cooking.
Activities for kids: we discussed ideas for activities that kids can get involved in such as badge making, a fruit shy, drawing vegetables, a quiz, seed planting. No firm decisions were made.
Action: Viv to think about children’s activities and report back at the next meeting.
Talks: suggested topics for talks included climate change and food, permaculture, a presentation from the London-based food growing project Food Up Front, a talk from a biodynamic farmer or from Compassion in World Farming to highlight the impact the meat industry has on the environment and to offer suggestions of things people can do to reduce their impact (including eating less but high quality meat and veganism). Alice from Trapese Network has offered to do a talk / workshop on the food system from a global and local perspective. We decided, in the first instance, to pursue Alice’s offer, Food Up Front, and a permaculture talk (given that Transition is largely based around permaculture principles).
Action: Jo to speak to Alice and Food Up Front
Action: Ann to invite someone from Brighton Permaculture Trust to speak
Film screening: we discussed doing a showing of The Future of Food and we’ve found someone with a copy we can use. We might hold a discussion about the film after the screening. We will need to think about who we can ask to come and lead a discussion on GM.
Local food awareness-raising: we discussed having a stall to compare a local veg box to a box of the same veg bought from the supermarket. This would help to promote local veg box schemes and to show people how cost-effective it is to get a veg box, plus highlight the benefits of eating seasonally. We will also have a food miles quiz in which the person who comes closest to guessing the mileage on each box will win the box.
Action: Simon B to contact the local veg box schemes to see if any of the farms would be willing to donate a box of produce and to come along to promote their service (or to send information we can put on display).
Publicity: we had some initial thoughts about where, how and when to publicise the event. We agreed that 3 weeks before the event would be a good time to begin promoting it. We will ask Rocks and The Argus to advertise it, as well as the numerous ‘what’s on in Brighton’ websites, email networks, the Food Partnership and Transition B&H websites. Publicity will be discussed in greater detail at the next meeting.
This day will be about awareness-raising and practical skills that people can take away with them. We thought that ending the day with an open discussion or debate might help people to voice their views and to discuss the new things they’ve learned. We also discussed preparing a leaflet with 10 practical things people can do to reduce their impact on the environment via their food choices.
Next meeting: the next meeting will be on Tuesday the 11th of March at the Earth and Stars pub at 7:30pm. At this meeting we will feed back on our actions from this meeting, finalise the programme for the big food day, decide on a name for the day, and discuss our publicity strategy.
Seedy Sunday – Sun 3 February
Community seed swap at 3pm in Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove (map). Plus talk about Seedy Sunday by Alice from Trapese.
Bigger venue, more seeds to swap, more stalls, and over 100 seed potato varieties to buy.
Also at Seedy Sunday: Alice from the Trapese Popular Education Collective will lead a discussion looking at ways that Seedy Sunday is connected to struggles around the world by people attempting to take back control of their food and their lives. She will also talk about the recently published Do It yourself, A Handbook for Changing Our World edited by Trapese and discounted copies will be available. See www.trapese.org / www.handbookforchange.org
Meeting: Food group – Tue 15 January
The next Transition Brighton & Hove food group meeting will take place on Tuesday 15th January at 7:30pm at Brighton Eco Centre, Basement meeting room, 39-41 Surrey Street (across from Brighton station). Ring Ann on 07729126772 for entry into the building.
At this meeting we will discuss our plans about how to take our work forward in the New Year and how to engage with others working on food issues in B&H.
Agenda:
- Planning an event
- How we can bring people together
- Prioritise course of action for engaging with growers, businesses and residents across the city
- Think about steps: where are people at now with their knowledge of food issues and what is one step forward.
Notes from first Food Group meeting - 10 December 2007
Notes by Ann Baldridge
The meeting was attended by Chris, Jacob, Simon, Jo, Ann, Simon, Jess and John
The group discussed some of the themes they’d like to address, ways of engaging with people around the city, and some of the activities that could be a part of the group’s work programme. The first meeting involved an informal discussion. It was agreed that future meetings will have a chair and a set agenda.
Some of the issues discussed:
- Supermarkets and whether there is a place for them in the Transition vision of society.
- Local food and how and where to buy it. It was agreed that supply of local food needs to increase if we plan to feed ourselves.
- Intensive urban growing
- Food waste
- Land use: it was suggested that the food group speak to the government liaison group about land use in Brighton & Hove
Ideas for activities:
- Develop an education programme to raise awareness of the benefits of local food, to lobby the council for more land to grow on, and to increase skills around food growing (e.g. via lectures on food growing)
- Start a community allotment managed by TBH food group
- Develop a step-by-step guide to becoming a greener consumer which would include a guide to shopping for local, sustainable produce in Brighton
- Facilitate a skills sharing system (see Bright Exchange or Freeconomy) to increase skills around growing food
- Organise talks on food issues (e.g. food and fuel)
- Organise a large networking event, possibly with speakers
- Hold an Open Space Event to discuss the future of the city’s food system
Next meeting: Tuesday 15th January, 7:30 at Brighton Eco Centre, Basement meeting room, 39-41 Surrey Street, Brighton BN1 3PB (across from Brighton station). Ring Ann on 07729126772 for entry into the building.
At this meeting we will discuss our plans about how to take forward our work in the New Year.
Agenda:
- Planning an event
- How we can bring people together
- Prioritise course of action for engaging with growers, businesses and residents across the city
- Think about steps: where are people at now with their knowledge of food issues and what is one step forward.
Brighton & Hove Food Partnership AGM – Wed 5 December
If you're interested in finding out more about the Food Partnership and our upcoming plans, the AGM is on Wednesday the 5th of December, at the Brighthelm Centre in the Hanover Room from 7-9pm. We'll be holding elections to our Board, launching our new Good Food Small Grants Scheme, and having a tasting of local foods, plus organic and biodynmic wines. The agenda for the evening is here.If you'd like to attend please email an RSVP to the Brighton and Hove Food Partnership so we know numbers for refreshments.
Debate: Carnivores or Vegans: who’s saving the planet? – 3 December
Transition Town Lewes’s Food Group presents: Carnivores or Vegans: who’s saving the planet? A debate
The Ainsworth Room, Southover Grange, Lewes £3
Can a meat-free diet reduce one person's impact on the environment even more than giving up their car or forgoing several plane trips a year, or would a vegan diet destroy the British countryside as we know it? With animal emissions accounting for 18% of total greenhouse gases, what is the future for meat eaters, meat producers and the British countryside?
Speakers include Martin Tebbutt of Boathouse Organics, livestock farmer, Michael Fordham, Tony Wardle of Vegetarian campaign group, Viva! And Craig Sams, chair of The Soil Association. Chaired by Joyce Edmond Smith of Brighton and Hove Council’s Sustainability Commission.
Details and bookings: Gilly Smith 01323 815704 email: gilly*at*gillysmith.com
FEAST OR FAMINE: Can we eat well and save the planet?
A debate to ask big questions about the food we eat. Part of the
city's Food & Drink Festival. 20 September at the Thistle Hotel on
Brighton seafront.
A report on the event has been posted on the forum here
Notes for Food – from meeting on July 25th
notes taken by Alex Munslow
15 People (approx)
Questions raised and summary of discussion:
Is self sufficiency possible in Brighton?
- Is total self sufficiency advisable? Although we need to cut down ‘food miles’ with locally sourced food, importing and exporting should not be stopped altogether as trade is necessary.
- In light of the crop damage caused by flooding this year in the UK problems with a combination of peak oil and climate change could mean trade will be just as important.
How much can we supply locally?
- We could prioritise foods that are imported. Foods that must be kept refrigerated or foods with a high water content should be transported, where foods such as grains should be sourced locally.
- Manufacturing could be relocalised as well as food and that eating less meat and dairy would reduce transport use.
How can we lessen effects on the 3rd world?
- In a global economy many third world countries rely on agricultural trade with the UK for their livelihoods. What responsibility do we have to them concerning decreasing trade by reducing our ‘air miles’?
How can we convince people to change their lifestyles?
- Don’t tell people what they should and shouldn’t do. If you want them to change provide healthy attractive alternatives. Local food is healthier.
- Empower people to grow their own food where possible. Relocalise control of the food system to the community. A community agricultural project could be organised to engage people with food issues.
- Schools should have lessons in sustainable food growth and be taught how to cook locally grown food.
- Reskilling is needed in how to identify and cook wild foods.
- General food education.
- ‘Policy’ and ‘inertia’ were cited as the main obstacles to community based local food growing projects. However, there are several community based projects in Stanmer Park.
- Brighton should be surveyed to define public areas where food could be grown.
- Decorative bushes in public spaces should be edible varieties.
- The council should be lobbied to turnover more land to community food projects.
- A dramatic increase in oil prices would prohibit using supermarkets in the future and we may have to rely more on local farmers markets.
Is the population in the South East of England too large to sustain itself locally?
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