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People’s Emergency Briefing coming to venues across North Lancashire
Rachel Marshall, , Closing Loops, 0Lancaster & Morecambe Greenpeace is working with the National Emergency Briefing organisers and other local groups to bring screenings...
Cork Road allotments are composting for Eggcup
Nina Osswald, , Allotments, Closing Loops, Local Food Column, composting, Eggcup, REconomy, 0Cork Road allotments and local surplus food charity Eggcup have teamed up on a new circular composting project. Eight...
Market stories: The SeaSalt Catering Co: A Story Rooted in Community, Culture and Food
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, Local Food Column, markets, 0For many of us, food is simply part of the daily routine. For Jane Cottam, it has always been...
Lune Valley Beekeepers plea for help against invader
Nick Lakin, , Closing Loops, February, Local Food Column, bees, Pots of Possibility, 0Dr Fred Ayres, Chair of Lune Valley Beekeepers, explains why Yellow Legged Asian hornets are a major threat to...
How to rescue nine tonnes of food: Share the Harvest 2025
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, gleaning, Share the Harvest, 02025 was an absolute bumper year for fruit. Did you notice? “This wasn’t just the case in the UK,...
Swift Action: How Lancaster Became a Swift City to Help the Red List Birds
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, Pots of Possibility, REconomy, 0Every May, the skies above Lancashire fill with swifts swooping and reeling. It makes me feel so happy when...
Our tour was incredibly inspiring. Ragtag Arts is a very different kind of community centre. It's all about bringing...
Reconnecting with Dirt: What Community Composting Has Meant for Me
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, Local Food Column, composting, 0Every week, my housemate and I fill our kitchen caddy with kitchen scraps, take it to the park and...
The 2025 Pots of Possibility ‘Your Pots’ grants are (provisionally) awarded to…
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, Pots of Possibility, REconomy, 0The third annual ‘Your Pots – Your Say’ community voting day was held at The Storey in Lancaster on...
Whopper carrot grown after soil gets microbe supercharge
Nick Lakin, , Closing Loops, Growing your own, allotment, composting, 0Diana McIntyre, who is Community Composting Coordinator for FoodFutures North Lancashire’s Closing Loops project, said she went from “I...
Brighten up your night at local street food market during popular Light Up Lancaster festival
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, Local Food Column, markets, 0Light Up Lancaster returns to the city to help brighten the autumn nights on November 6, 7 and 8...
The Closing Loops project was featured in the beautiful Breathe Magazine this autumn. After introducing some fascinating examples from...
Help us distribute £50,000 of Pots of Possibility grant funding
Nick Lakin, , Closing Loops, Events, Pots of Possibility, REconomy, 0The latest round of Your Pots funding is giving grants of up to £10,000 to local projects that can...
Nourishing people and planet through shared meals
Nina Osswald, , Closing Loops, Local Food Column, cooking, 0Despite the gloomy skies, intermittent downpours and gazebo-threatening gusts of wind, Friday the 12th September saw another successful FoodFutures...
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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
- Allotments – why we (as plot holders) have them…
- 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













