- For better school food, and food skills, and protecting children from junk food marketing
- An informal network of London restaurants and catering businesses that care about sustainability
- Evidence of the contribution of food and farming to climate change
- Highlighting the connections between diet, mental health and behaviour
- How action can protect the environment, enhance social justice and improve health
- Campaigning for a law on healthy and sustainable food for schools, hospitals, care homes
- Practical help to increase healthy and sustainable food in schools, hospitals, care homes…
- Local and regional activity that promotes healthy and sustainable food
- Helping producers, consumers, retailers and caterers provide healthy and sustainable food
- Reconnecting people and land through local food
- Working for sustainable food at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Practical advice for anyone interested in buying and using more sustainable food
- Spreading information about urban food growing in London, the UK and worldwide
- Working in 10 deprived London areas to improve access to affordable and sustainable food
- Inspired by the London 2012 Food Vision, the campaign for healthy and sustainable food in catering
- Challenging businesses and citizens to make London the world's first Sustainable Fish City
- Sustainable food news in London
- Demonstrating and promoting the benefits of urban agriculture
- 2,012 new food growing spaces by the end of 2012
- Find or set up a Food Co-op in your area
- For bread made with natural ingredients
Welcome to the Eat Somerset Directory
From June 2006 to Summer 2009 Sustain co-ordinated a food chain project in south west England, working to increase trading between farmers, food producers and independent food retailers. This directory helped to connect producers to retail outlets.
The Eat Somerset project has now finished, and staff no longer update this directory, so information may be out of date. It will remain online in case it may still be useful, and we may update it in future as staff time and funding allow.
Food Buyers from retail outlets
Please feel free to use this directory to identify local food producers. You may also wish to get in touch with:
- South West Food and Drink
- Taste of the West
- South West Regional Development Agency
- Government Office for the South West
Producers in the Eat Somerset Directory are those in Somerset and areas close to Bristol and Bath that are interested in supplying to local retailers either directly, or through wholesalers. Many of the producers can also supply caterers (cafés, restaurants, hotels), public sector organisations (schools, hospitals) and wholesalers. This is clearly shown on their entry in the directory.
Producers
Whilst the Eat Somerset Directory is no longer being updated, you may be interested in the following opportunities:
- Supplying community food co-ops in your area – see the Food Co-ops website and contact Sustain’s southwest regional food co-op advisor, Alison Belshaw: alison@sustainweb.org
- South West Food and Drink
- Taste of the West
- Food for Life partnership in the southwest
Distribution of Eat Somerset suppliers in 2009 (no longer updated)
Density of suppliers:
High
Medium
Low
Inclusion in this database does not imply approval of the organisation or their activities by Sustain or any organisation in its membership.
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