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dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 16 12:35 pm Post subject:
edible york / abundance forage and harvest and waste reduction and then feeding hungry folk, nice people and rather efficient in various ways.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 16 6:44 am Post subject:
Both of those seem really good. Thanks for the links.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Wed Dec 14, 16 1:17 pm Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

Both of those seem really good. Thanks for the links.

it is rather a good way to put fresh fruit etc into the system. the shipping container is a great bit of kit as an apple store as it can hold a multi site crop of the "hand" picked ones as well as give a cool space for juicers until they can be processed.

a decent sized (100kg batch) press would be nice as the available one is about 15 kg of scratted fruit at a time and therefore very labour intensive.

Aeolienne

Joined: 03 Apr 2008
Posts: 1498
Location: Leamington Spa, Warks

Posted: Sat Dec 17, 16 4:24 pm Post subject:
Made in Hackney (as in the London borough - pedants will point out that it's actually located in Stoke Newington)

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 16 9:15 am Post subject:

That is good, and probably not too expensive for London. Trouble is, even with the concessions it may be too expensive for the people who really need it, who won't really be able to afford anything. The food bank I help at had an idea about doing cookery classes for our clients where we would show them how to make the most of what they were given in their food parcels or using very cheap ingredients, but it hasn't started yet.

Aeolienne

Joined: 03 Apr 2008
Posts: 1498
Location: Leamington Spa, Warks

Posted: Sun Dec 18, 16 5:23 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

There's the Real Junk Food Project...

Our local one is raising funds for refurbishment, if anyone is feeling flush: https://www.gofundme.com/2u43pdrg

As is the one in Manchester.

Aeolienne

Joined: 03 Apr 2008
Posts: 1498
Location: Leamington Spa, Warks

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 17 11:11 pm Post subject:
A "community fridge" has launched in Brixton, London: The People's Fridge Although Frome in Somerset got there first: Link I hope this doesn't reflect a creeping London bias on the part of Positive News ever since they upped sticks and left Shropshire for the Great Wen.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15966

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 17 8:22 am Post subject:
A good idea. Food banks have to have mainly tinned food, and so often people that have to use them don't get fresh veg etc.

Pilsbury

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 5645
Location: East london/Essex

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 17 11:04 am Post subject:
Our local salvation army major goes to Costco a coulme of times a week and collects a car full of their out of date cakes and fruit and bread and anything else they are giving away and sells it from tables in the church, 10 p loaf of bread and 50p bag of Apple type thing but as far as i knkw it's not an officially organised thing with a website and such but always popular

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 17 4:56 pm Post subject:
Are food hubs a thing in the U.K.? https://web.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-043013-151105/unrestricted/Food_Hub_IQP_Final_Report.pdf

Aeolienne

Joined: 03 Apr 2008
Posts: 1498
Location: Leamington Spa, Warks

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 17 10:58 pm Post subject:

Slim wrote:

Are food hubs a thing in the U.K.?

https://web.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-043013-151105/unrestricted/Food_Hub_IQP_Final_Report.pdf

TL;DR - is that the equivalent of a food assembly? Here's one in Leamington Spa.

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 17 11:30 pm Post subject:
Yeah, that looks quite similar. There has also been a resurgence of local distributors in New England, folks who will stop by a farm to pick up orders and drop off local, regional, and national/international orders. Often working in conjunction with food hubs

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15966

Posted: Tue Feb 14, 17 8:27 am Post subject:

We also have farmers markets, but they are not particularly cheap. Generally distances are not as great in the UK which makes distribution easier in some ways. I don't really know about cities elsewhere, but round here we don't have the problem with minority groups being poor groups too. Our pockets of poor seem to be more in certain areas, some historically poor, and sometimes going back generations in the same local families where they just haven't got out of the problems.

Aeolienne

Joined: 03 Apr 2008
Posts: 1498
Location: Leamington Spa, Warks

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 17 11:20 pm Post subject:
The farmers' market in Leamington Spa is a bit disappointing - it seems to sell more pre-prepared stuff (pies, jams etc) than ingredients.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 17 8:09 am Post subject:

Farmers markets are for producers of local food. You will often find people selling meat, fish and vegetables at some markets, but only where it is financially viable. Others will be selling pies, preserves and bread that are made from local produce. If it is a Farma affiliated market the rules are that the things have to have more than a certain percentage of produce from that county or from within 10 miles of that county.

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