Apple juicing, cooking demonstrations, live music, community displays and a big shared lunch will be on the menu at...
Food Justice Partnership celebrates first year as registered charity
Nick Lakin, , August, Local Food Column, food, food economy, 0Joel Stewart, development worker at Lancaster District Food Justice Partnership, reflects on the organisation’s first year as a registered...
Become a FoodFriend to help grow Lancaster market gardens
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...
Allotment Open Day and Hanging Gardens
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...
Love Local Honey: Bee Pro-active
Jo Gadsden, , August, Food Procurement & Economy, Gather North Lancs Food Hub, North Lancs is Gold campaign, The Faces Behind Our Food, bees, farmers, food economy, Gather, honey, local, producers, 0Pure honey from local honey bees in danger from invading hornets
Celebrating the first year of schools project Where The Wildings Are!
Nick Lakin, , August, Local Food Column, Where The Wildings Are, 0Olivia Grundy, from new schools project Where the Wildings Are! explores the successes, challenges and experiences during its first...
Once you join the crop-share, you’ll never go back…
Grace Russell, , August, Food and Health, Local Food Column, The Plot, 0Grace Russell, marketing and communications coordinator at FoodFutures, shares her insight on being a crop sharer in the Plot’s...
A growing force for social change
Grace Russell, , August, Events, Food Champion Network, Local Food Column, 0Fariha Blockley, Network Builder and Facilitator at FoodFutures, explains why people might join the North Lancashire Food Champion Network...
FoodFutures coordinator, Anna Clayton, reflects on 2024’s spring into action events whilst also sharing plans for the future. North...
Why I’m a FoodFriend: I believe in decentralised food!
Grace Russell, , August, Local Food Column, The Plot, 0This week we hear from Josh who is a member of the FoodFriends scheme run by LESS. What is...
In this week’s column, Anna Clayton invites you to join Claver Hill (CH) in celebrating a decade of growing...
August 2021: New from The Plot
Ellen Pearce, , August, FarmStart, The Plot, FarmStart, food economy, FoodFriends, The Plot, 0A personal account by Lucy, one of our FarmStart trainees. The journey from seed to edible leaf/fruit/root is such...
In this week’s column Ellen Pearce introduces The Plot – a new market garden and training centre that seeks...
Kiki Callihan of North Lancashire’s FoodFutures welcomes you to join us at “The Lost Art of Living” – Lancaster’s...
Written by Food Citizen Sean Chew The COVID-19 pandemic saw supermarkets struggle to meet the sheer demand of grocery-deprived...
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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














