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Feeding Stockport is now up and running and so we though we'd ask our Feeding Stockport Co-ordinator, Jemma to tell us what has been going on over the last three months:

I am now in my third month, how time has flown by. Every day I meet someone new and hear great things which are going on in and around Stockport. The support has been fantastic with many people wanting to see how their work can fit with Feeding Stockport and how we can work together to make our food system more sustainable, helping our communities in the process.

The Strategy is an ambitious document written with the support of over a hundred groups, small businesses and partners from the public sector at three previous FeedingManchester events and is intended to:

• Inform & inspire. - we have taken great examples from across Greater Manchester.

The Kindling Trust and Manchester Veg People are looking for public sector partners to pilot an exciting package that will enable you to incorporate fresh local healthy produce into meals, at a price supporting local growers – but coming within the costs of the current menus.

The Kindling Trust's mission to make Greater Manchester a more sustainable food growing region is liiterally bearing fruit - or it will be soon. 

Local food is popular on menus across Greater Manchester. Many local people would love to know how to make a career as a grower. 

Already a rising number of young (and not so young) people in and around Greater Manchester are opting for more physical life away from a computer and a desk, a chance to get their hands dirty and supply restaurants, pubs and schools across Greater Manchester with good, healthy, fresh food.

The campaign to create a more sustainable and fair food system in the North West has taken a big step forward thanks to a funding award from the Prince's Countryside Trust.

An award of £50,000 to the Kindling Trust will support the development of FarmStart Manchester, the UK's only organic incubator farm.

The Kindling Trust is delighted to announce that our bid to make Stockport part of the UK-wide Sustainable Food Cities Network has been successful.  Stockport is one of only six places across the country to be selected for the project and will receive a share of the £1m funding. The funding will allow Kindling to employ a full time project worker who will work closely with the community and the council to revolutionise the chain of local food production, distribution and consumption. 

Manchester’s Victorian history will come alive next Saturday (26^th) as a shipment of spuds is unloaded in the traditional style from a canal boat at Potato Wharf, Castlefield.

The event is the centrepiece of a morning of free family-friendly activities, guided walks, information, costume and colour, organised by Forgotten Fields, a project of the Manchester-based Kindling Trust and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.   

FarmStart and Abbey Leys farm this week hosted a group of Land Army volunteers with a difference. Our 11 volunteers were all BBC staff keen to get their hands dirty while learning more about organic farming and spending time working together outside the office.