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Lower Carbon on the Menu?

Date:

10 January, 2012

In December 2011, as part of the Sustainable Fayre project, the Kindling Trust in partnership with Climate Friendly Food delivered the final report for 20% and 41% carbon reduction of menus to Manchester City Council.Read more

Join our Growing Team.

Date:

22 December, 2011

It is not very often that you get approached by a group offering you support and funds to carry out your work - especially at such a difficult time for the third sector. But, that is exactly what happened when Chris Smith of Foodlink NW approached Kindling in the summer offering us the opportunity to join it's Local Food Fund bid.

At the time there was no guarantee the bid would be successful and so we put the opportunity to the back of our minds, but three weeks ago, we received a phone call confirming the bid had been successful.Read more

Solar PV for Unicorn.

Date:

14 December, 2011

Carbon Co-op have successfully designed and installed their first solar PV array. The 12kw array was installed on the roof of Unicorn Grocery, a wholefood co-operative in Chorlton, South Manchester, in time to qualify for the higher rate of Feed in Tariff (FiT). The panels should produce over 8500kwh of electricity per year, significantly reducing both Unicorn's energy bills and their carbon footprint.Read more

Thanks for your support!

carbon coop

Date:

3 December, 2011

Well, we gave it our best shot but we didn't win the Energyshare vote, the £100,000 award went to Hexham Hydro, which looks to be a very worthwhile winner and we wish them every success. 1159 people registered with the site and voted for us, so a big thank you to everyone. We are very proud to have got through to the final 6 out of the nearly 1000 community projects from around the country that entered the competition.Read more

FeedingManchester #8.

Date:

30 November, 2011

Last night's FeedingManchester #8 took inspiration from a spectrum of sustainable food pioneers from local guerilla gardeners to Incredible Edible Todmordon to the campaign to stop global food speculation.

Attendees ranged from the University of Manchester and academics from Lancaster and Sheffield Universities; voluntary groups like Transistion Town Groups, Operation Farm & Abundance Manchester and businesses like Unicorn Grocery, with over forty people attending.

People came from Bolton, Aston Under Lyne, New Mills, Broadbottom and even London!Read more

Operation: Garlic.

Date:

28 October, 2011

The Land Army was in Glazebury on 28th October planting garlic for the Moss Brook Growers.

Conditions were perfect, the soil had dried out enough to make planting easy and it was a beautiful sunny day.

Of the 7,500 cloves they plan to plant this season we planted over 5000 with 6 volunteers.Read more

Thinking Food Systems.

Date:

26 October, 2011

Kindling's Chris & Chloe visited the Quaker's WoodBrooke Study Centre (in Birmingham) over two days for a Local Food Systems (LFS) Seminar.

There we meet up with four of the five other LFS projects being supported by the Making Local Food Work programme: Liverpool Food Alliance, Nottingham Food Partnership, Sheffield Regather Land and Colne-U-topia.

As well as networking and socialising with the other groups, we had a chance to study their projects, discuss the challenges we are all facing and share possible solutions.Read more

Veg People Latest.

Date:

26 October, 2011

There has been a lot going on for Manchester Veg People over the past few weeks.Read more

Good Company.

Date:

21 October, 2011

We were accompanied by staff of Reason Digital today to Moss Brook Organic Growers as part of their volunteering commitment to good causes in Manchester.Read more

Levie's Food History.

Date:

18 October, 2011

The Forgotten Fields project has begun to explore the food heritage of Cringle Fields and the Highfield Park area of Levenshulme, which was well known locally for smallholdings known as the Piggeries.

Forgotten Fields is a project focused on the heritage of food production and availability in Manchester from 1750’s to present day. It concentrates on six communities from across Greater Manchester that have expressed a need to explore a particular food heritage.Read more

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