Introducing Elliot, one of the 2025 cohort of FarmStarters at the Plot. Elliot tells us about his motivation to...
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Adapting community is key to resilience in a changing world
Nick Lakin, , FarmStart, Growing your own, Local Food Column, May, The Plot, Uncategorised, 0New FarmStarter at The Plot Richard Gittins explains how communities can become more sustainable in a changing world… Over...
Lancaster’s Potato Day returns
Grace Russell, , Events, Growing your own, January, Local Food Column, 0Lancaster’s ‘Potato Day’ again falls on the last Saturday in January (on 25 January 2025) at the Friends Meeting...
Crop-share offer at The Plot
Grace Russell, , Food and Health, Growing your own, Local Food Column, March, The Plot, Uncategorised, 0In this week's local food column, Dennis Touliatos from The Plot explains what a crop-share is and invites you...
Do you dream of being able to access land within North Lancashire?
Ellen Pearce, , FarmStart, Food Procurement & Economy, Growing your own, The Plot, food economy, REconomy, The Plot, 0The Our Food Futures community food strategy makes the case for producing more food within North Lancashire. There is...
Exploring Allotment Futures
Grace Russell, , Events, Growing your own, January, Local Food Column, Uncategorised, 0Anna Clayton invites you to join LESS in exploring possible allotment futures this February. Throughout February there will be...
Potato Day
Grace Russell, , Events, Growing your own, January, Local Food Column, Local food resources, Uncategorised, 0Sami Starling shares some facts about Lancaster’s Potato Day event and about the spud itself and its varieties. For...
Help us pilot a new farming game!
Ellen Pearce, , FarmStart, Food Procurement & Economy, Growing your own, The Plot, 0Are you interested in being a small-scale organic vegetable grower? Are you available, 10-4pm on 4 Feb? We are...
The Plot for more Locally Grown Veg – Jess’s story
FoodFutures, , FarmStart, Food Procurement & Economy, Growing your own, June, Local Food Column, The Plot, FarmStart, FoodFriends, The Plot, 0We’re plotting to grow more organic food locally! This is the fourth and final in a series about the...
The Plot for more Locally Grown Veg – Lucy’s story
FoodFutures, , FarmStart, Food Procurement & Economy, Growing your own, June, Local Food Column, The Plot, FarmStart, FoodFriends, The Plot, 0We’re plotting to grow more organic food locally! This is the third week in a series of posts about...
Judith Watson shares her allotment learnings in this week’s column. I have had an allotment for nearly 20 years...
Wild garlic has returned to the Lune’s wooded banks, plum trees are starting to blossom and rhubarb is back...
The Growing Our Local Food Economy (GOLFE) team have created a local food map of Lancaster. This map displays...
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- 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












