Kindling presented it plans for a Greater Manchester Land Army at the Making Local Food Work conference in Sheffield on the 12th May.
The day long conference entitled: Rooting community food in an enterprising future was aiming to: help build sustainable local food systems and encourage communities to get involved in any of the diverse range of community food enterprises in existence, from Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and group buying schemes to Farmers’ Markets and community-owned shops.
Kindling took part in the workshop entitled: The enterprising benefits of cross-collaboration: the advantages of community food enterprises working together to achieve joint aims and to create a robust food sector.
The session promoting the vast benefits of collaboration and co-operation for community food enterprises in their shared aim of creating a viable and sustainable local food system.
Tim Crabtree opened the session introducing what a ' food system' was, identifying its elements: physical capital, natural capital, human capital etc. And it was Chris' task to present a project that was aiming to deal directly with human capital to deal with waste in the existing food system.
Chris gave a ten minute presentation on the newly formed Land Army - a partnership between FeedingManchester, Unicorn Grocery, MERCi, Hulme Community Garden Centre, Manchester Abundance, DIG Food and Manchester VegPeople (a fledgling co-op of local organic growers).
For more information about the Land Army click here.
The presentation can be accessed below.