A personal account by Dennis, Grower at the Plot July has been a month of transitions and transformations at...
July 2021: News from The Plot
Ellen Pearce, , FarmStart, July, The Plot, FarmStart, food economy, FoodFriends, The Plot, 0A personal account by Tamsin, our grower at The Plot. The focus has firmly shifted this month at The...
The Lancaster Health Festival has finally arrived, with a range of exciting and thoughtful events taking place online and in...
Fresh Veg now available from The Plot
FoodFutures, , Food Procurement & Economy, July, Local Food Column, The Plot, 0From beetroot and mange tout, to flavourful salad bags with bright edible flowers, to herbs and spring onions, The...
Written for us by Julia Russell, a local Herbalist and Forager, who is well worth following on Instagram (@juliarussellherbalist)...
Local food citizen -Sean Chew – writes about Lancaster’s seed library and how it responded to the pandemic. It’s...
Emily House, a worker at Single Step, shares their wholesome news... Single Step is a wholefood shop run co-operatively...
Creating a legacy of regenerative farms for future generations
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Back in January 2020 Morecambe Bay Extinction Rebellion (MBXR) carried out a symbolic action, delivering a letter to the...
On 1 June LESS took over a small one-acre site at Old Holly Farm – an organic dairy farm...
Last week FoodFutures came across a new network that may be of interest to us here in Lancaster, particularly...
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Apis mellifera, otherwise known as the honey bee, is the only insect that produces food eaten by humans on...
In this week’s column we hear Liz’s food story and how she ended up joining Lancaster’s FarmStart organic growers...
Dennis Touliatos, coordinator of Lancaster Seed Library, provides us with a short project update in this week’s column. In...
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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














