Ellen Pearce explores how we might work better together through closer collaboration… In April, over 25 local change-maker organisations...
Allotment development worker Deborah Simmonds explores how people benefit from allotments, and shares an ‘allotment social’ event for plot...
LESS director Lynne Carr explains why it’s an exciting time to join the board of Lancaster’s Community Interest Company…...
FarmStarter Richard reflects on a year learning about nature-friendly farming and the words of Franklin Roosevelt – ‘A nation...
Emma Foster talks us through the successes and challenges of Lancaster’s lively International Lunch Club… Global Village Café started...
Nick Lakin from FoodFutures looks back at a wet and windy Saturday at Lancaster’s new community farm… More than...
New FoodFutures volunteer and FoodFriend Hilary Thomas is on a mission to understand the partnership and the people that...
Vasiliki Makri, the new volunteer and community engagement coordinator for the Plot, invites people to join the friendly community...
Jo Haughton, Communications Coordinator for North Lancashire Food Hub, welcomes the public to meet the faces behind their local...
Finn, the seasonal trainee grower at the Plot, provides a behind-the-scenes account of life at the Plot during September...
The Northern Real Farming Conference was first run online in 2020 to bring together farmers and food system workers...
Gail Capstick reminisces on ‘picking’ shrimp in Morecambe Bay. The brown shrimps (Crangon crangon) caught in shallow waters in...
Following the success of Transition City Lancaster’s Harvest Feast in 2018 and 2019 FoodFutures have taken up the baton...
A personal account by Sam, seasonal grower and 2021 FarmStarter at the Plot What is a farm? When I...
An update by Ellen, FarmStart and the Plot coordinator The last month felt transitional – from summer to autumn,...
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