Making Local Food Work aims to reconnect people and land through local food by increasing access to fresh, healthy, local food with clear, traceable origins.
The five-year programme of work is exploring community enterprise approaches to connecting land and people through food, and creating the practical tools and support to help make such enterprises thrive.
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Making Local Food Work reports:
Local Food Links: The first 10 years
Building a Sustainable Food Hub
An investigation into the workings of small scale food hubs
Joining the Dots: Collaborative food distribution for restaurants
The Making Local Food Work programme brings together a consortium of national organisations working to improve the sustainability of community food enterprises such as co-operatively managed farmers’ markets; community owned village shops; country markets; sustainable food hubs; food co-ops and buying groups; and community supported agriculture - all of which bring producers and consumers closer together. Making Local Food Work is co-ordinated by the Plunkett Foundation and funded by the Changing Spaces programme of the Big Lottery.
Sustain is a consortium partner in Making Local Food Work, coordinating two strands of work:
- Food Co-ops and Buying Groups. For more information contact Maresa Bossano: maresa@sustainweb.org.
- Food Supply and Distribution. For more information contact Clare Horrell: clare@sustainweb.org
- In London, both these strands of work are integrated through Suzanne Natelson, as part of the activities of London Food Link, contact: suzanne@sustainweb.org
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