Grasp the Nettle & Nettle Aloo Recipe
FoodFutures, , Local Food Column, Local food recipes, Local food resources, 0Written by Julia Russell, herbalist and forager The common nettle (which botanists call Urtica dioica) is the most versatile...
Open Farm Sunday
Anna Clayton, , June, Local Food Column, 0Cockerham Boers writes about their upcoming Open Farm Sunday event in this week’s column. ‘On 9th June hundreds of...
FoodCities National Gathering
Anna Clayton, , June, Local Food Column, 0Two week’s ago a group of representatives from Lancaster’s FoodFutures partnership attended the national Sustainable Food City (SFC) gathering...
Mansergh Hall
Anna Clayton, , June, Local Food Column, 0Mansergh Hall, featured in the Faces Behind Our Food exhibition, used to sell organic certified meat. But several years...
Two tasty weeks coming up!
Anna Clayton, , June, Local Food Column, 0The summer may be slow in coming, but Lancaster’s food growers and community food projects are not dampened by...
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...
Gleaning locally available produce in our area
FoodFutures, , June, Local Food Column, Local food resources, 0Abundance Morecambe is a volunteer-led project set up by Jessica Holmes in May 2021, inspired by the Abundance Sheffield...
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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








