Our Videos
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Duncan from New Food Entrepreneurs interviews our Helen. “It’s more efficient to grow some crops on a field scale, so we need to skill up a new generation of growers to do that. And we need to value them properly so that they can make a livelihood out of it” |
Our Woodbank horticulture hub is home to an innovative social prescribing pilot, which we're running in partnership with Stockport GP's Alvanley Family Practice and the Starting Point Community Learning Partnership. |
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Featuring the farmers, co-op members and volunteers we work with, this film explores our work incubating and supporting projects like FarmStart and Manchester Veg People. Plus find out more about our plans to establish a large farm close to Manchester. |
In October 2015 Priestnall School in Stockport became the first Greater Manchester secondary school to incorporate fresh, local organic veg into its menus with a pilot project involving us, Cracking Good Food and Manchester Veg People. |
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Pete Richie of the fantastic Nourish Scotland talking at our Making Food Fair event about food poverty as a government responsibility and in the context of a wider 'broken' food system. |
Our food system is perpetuating poverty for UK farmers as they struggle to make a living, whilst at the opposite end of the food chain, many families are unable to afford healthy food. |
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The Oxford Real Farming Conference was set up in 2010 to bring together practising, mud-on-the-boots farmers with scientists and economists, activists and lawyers, and everyone else with a serious interest in food and agriculture. |
In 19th Century Manchester food prices were high and quality unregulated. A group of Rochdale weavers took matters into their own hands and a Greater M’cr institution was born...the first Co-operative shop. |
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The University of Manchester is a member of Manchester Veg People, the innovative co-op of buyers and growers Kindling helped establish, and through the co-op now spends about £40,000 a year on local organic veg. |
This short film introduces the Growing Livelihoods partnership, creating, testing and promoting new opportunities in food growing, especially for those new to farming. |
