I am very busy at the moment and find it difficult to find the time to complete the pledge. I also find cooking a chore so like to buy things I can eat raw or are ready- made. However, I have made a conscious effort to source my food locally- even if I can’t record everything! I buy various fruit and veg and curries from the Indian shop on Blade Street; I eat lunch at Bibbi’s and sometimes get cake and bread from Filberts. The food from Filberts is excellent- especially the cinnamon rolls made on a Saturday (get there quick or they are all gone!) I go to Lancaster’s charter market on a Wednesday and Saturday and get salad and soup from Soup dragon. I also like the Veggies Man’s vegetarian mix.
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Anna Clayton, , August, Local Food Column, 0At this time of year it is very easy to eat local and seasonal food in Lancaster. It is...
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Nick Lakin, , August, Food and Health, Growing your own, Local food resources, The Faces Behind Our Food, The Plot, 0The mid-August sun beats down on a small area of farmland near Lancaster as volunteers pull out weeds, pick...
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Grace Russell, , August, Local Food Column, 0In this week’s column, Anna Clayton invites you to join Claver Hill (CH) in celebrating a decade of growing...
Kathy completes six month ‘no supermarket’ Gold pledge challenge!
Nick Lakin, , Food and Health, June, Local Food Column, Local food pledge stories, North Lancs is Gold campaign, food, 0Kathy Barton explores the challenge of not shopping at any supermarkets for six months as part of North Lancashire’s...
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Nick Lakin, , August, Events, Food and Health, Growing your own, Local Food Column, Local food resources, allotment, food, 0In this week’s column, Ian Dewar makes the connection between The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, BBC Gardeners World and...
The Fig Tree @ Lancaster’s Harvest Market
Anna Clayton, , August, Local Food Column, 0We spoke to Bruce Crowther, Executive Director of the The FIG Tree, in this week’s column. The Fig Tree’s...
A message from a pledger
Anna Clayton, , July, Local food pledge stories, 0Doing the food pledge…. I was initially worried that I would struggle to find the time to do this but in...
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