We've decided that FeedingManchester #15 should be a social/networking one - to reward all your hard work developing the Sustainable Food Charter & Action Plan at the last two Feeding Manchester events.
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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 (26th) 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.
Make the most of an amazing training opportunity to learn how to set up an organic food growing business from the growers themselves, this Autumn.
We are in the unusual position in Greater Manchester, of having a market for local organic produce that aims to pay the cost of production, not the volatile market prices! But we need more crops, and therefore more organic commercial growers local to Greater Manchester.
Join us on Sunday 29th September to learn about No Dig Growing with gardener & author Charles Dowding.
Doors open at 5pm with refreshments for 5.30 start.
Places are limited so please book a place as soon as possible.
Feeding Manchester #13 took place last Saturday,13 July at Bridge 5 Mill in Manchester. It was a beautiful, sunny summer day. Despite this, over 50 dedicated members of Greater Manchester's sustainable food network, representing over 30 different organisations, spent their day indoors engaged in discussions, workshops and presentations focusing on how we can make Greater Manchester a Sustainable Food City.