At the end of last month, Kindling organised Making Food Fair, a one day conference exploring food poverty and fairness in the food system overall. Kindling volunteer Becky Mallows gives her views on the day.
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Applications are now open for 2015 Test Croppers – the first year of our FarmStart programme introducing people to a new career in commercial organic vegetable production.
Apologies, we are aware that due to a glitch with our website/email server changeover some of our emails have been ending up in spam. If you have not recieved final details of the agenda and travel advice for Making Food Fair on Saturday 22nd November, please read on.
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While it’s been almost exactly a month since the brilliant and inspiring Nourish Scotland conference 'Our Common Wealth of Food', we thought that a little look at some of the highlights from it might whet your appetites for our own Making Food Fair event - at which we will welcome Pete Ritchie, Scottish farmer and Nourish Director.
Oldham primary school children served us up with all manner of pumpkin treats last week as they competed to produce displays and a pumpkin recipe that will end up on the school’s Autumn menu. The winning school will be visiting local suppliers Moss Brook Growers, to see where their pumpkins come from.
We are steadily progressing with our long-term plans to establish a large farm, ‘Ecommodation’ and social change centre somewhere close to Manchester, and last month we carried out a survey to start gathering thoughts and ideas from friends, supporters and Manchester residents.
We’re now into our second year of producing our own ‘Kindling Trust’ crops, grown at our FarmStart incubator site. So we’ve teamed up with MVP to take our goods to market, on the first Sunday of the month in Heaton Moor.
On Sunday 7th September, The Kindling Trust and Manchester Veg People joined up with their first retail offer at Stockport’s Heaton Moor market. It was a beautiful sunny day and the local community welcomed the new addition of an organic primary producer to the market.
Kindling’s FarmStart is the UK’s first and only incubator farm – creating a supported route into organic farming for brand new growers. Lindsay describes why she got involved and how it’s working out for her.
Get lucky with our survey about food, farming & our plans to buy a farm.
Over the next 3 years The Kindling Trust aims to establish a large farm (and much more) near Manchester using pioneering sustainable farming techniques and supporting a range of innovative enterprises and campaigns for social and environmental justice.