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The 2023 Pots of Possibility ‘Your Pots’ grants are (provisionally) awarded to…
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, REconomy, 0As the days get darker and the weather gets greyer, it can be easy for those winter blues to...
A new series of monthly repair and mend workshops is starting in January 2024 on Sunday afternoons 2-4pm at...
Celebrating good food at Light Up Lancaster
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, Events, Local Food Column, markets, 0The clocks have gone back, signalling the start of the colder, darker winter months. But this week, Lancaster will...
Sharing more than apples: reflections on Share the Harvest
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, Share the Harvest, 0In September this year, everyone in North Lancashire was invited to take part in “Share the Harvest”, a month-long...
The projects wanting your vote for a Pots of Possibility ‘Your Pots’ grant are…
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, REconomy, 0Some great projects have come forward to apply for a Pots of Possibility Your Pots grant. Since our local...
From Decoration to Dinner: Rethinking Pumpkins
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, Local Food Column, composting, cooking, 0As the air gets crisper and the leaves start to turn, it's that time of the year when we...
Recipe shared by Cath, a Claver Hill member Ingredients: Instructions: Pre-heat the oven to 180°C.Stew the chopped dates and...
In September a group of composters from across Lancaster District, all keen to compost together with others, travelled to...
Fruitful gatherings: Our experience of sharing our apple harvest
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, Local Food Column, Share the Harvest, 0By a gleaning host in Bowerham We first heard of gleaning in 2020 and asked Eggcup for help with...
Gleaners’ Cake
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, Local food recipes, Share the Harvest recipes, Share the Harvest, 0Recipe shared by a gleaning host from Bowerham Ingredients: Instructions: Soak the mixed dried fruits in the orange juice...
How can local communities decide together where money should be spent?
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, Local Food Column, REconomy, 0Jez Hall from Shared Future explains what participatory budgeting is, and how it’s going to work in North Lancashire.
Reflections on a community composting workshop with Closing Loops in Warton
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, Local Food Column, composting, 0Participant feedback compiled by Sue Brown from St Oswald’s Church, Warton In April 2023, Diana McIntyre led a composting...
Does your child’s fussy eating spoil family mealtimes?
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, Local Food Column, 0By Claire Potter, author and adviser on children’s fussy eating When I look back at my own childhood, I...
Some great ideas on what to do with surplus fruit this autumn
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, Local Food Column, Share the Harvest, 0By Nina Osswald, Closing Loops Engagement Coordinator If you have fruit trees in your garden, you may be familiar...
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- The Plot is getting closer to organic conversion
- How should we distribute the last £50,000 of Pots of Possibility grant funding?
- Building a regenerative economy from the ground up
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- Lancaster’s Harvest Feast brings sense of community and purpose around food
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Featured from The Archive: The Faces Behind Our Food
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Deborah takes on new allotment development role for North Lancashire 1 June 2026 -
Become a FoodFriend to help grow Lancaster market gardens 18 August 2025 -
Love Local Honey: Bee Pro-active 1 August 2025 -
Passivity not an option for Farmstarter Tommy 21 July 2025 -
Amazing things happening at grassroots level 17 July 2025 -
Join the FarmStart Training Programme 2025: Transforming North Lancashire’s Food System 28 November 2024 -
News from the Plot: September 2024 7 October 2024 -
A year of inspiration 18 January 2024 -
Our Food Stories: Andy Parkinson FarmStart Trainee 19 May 2022 -
William Beadon – Thornton Meadow Mushrooms 17 October 2016 -
Spud Club – Claver Hill 17 October 2016 -
Felicity (Fil) Duirwyn – Filbert’s Bakery 17 October 2016 -
William Howard – Billy’s Eggs 17 October 2016 -
Bruce Crowther – The FIG Tree 17 October 2016 -
Alan Schofield – Growing With Nature 17 October 2016 -
Gary Troughton – Dolphinholme Honey 17 October 2016 -
Amanda Gorton – Mansergh Hall Farm 17 October 2016 -
Sharon Peacock – Cockerham Boers 17 October 2016 -
Ray Edmondson – Edmondsons Fresh Fish 17 October 2016 -
Steph Stephenson – Stephensons Dairy 17 October 2016













