This manual gives a step by step guide to how Moss Brook Growers set up a mixed horticultural social enterprise from scatch. It will be invaluable reading to any group or individual looking to grow and sell vegetables.

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This practical guide details the creation and development of an innovative growers' and buyers' co-operative. It includes template documents to enable others to replicate the co-operative for themselves.

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Results of a survey of national supermarkets and high-street chains. It found that food and drinks are regularly displayed at the checkouts and in the queuing areas in these stores, and the vast majority of the products are unhealthy and often within easy reach of children.

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Independent evaluation of the Food Supply and Distribution strand of the Making Local Food Work programme, conducted by Dr Stuart Jones of the Programme for Community Regeneration at the University of Glamorgan

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This paper aims to share the experience that Sustain has had in working with community-run enterprises that trade in local and sustainable food, to develop Information Technology (IT) systems to support their work.

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This report aims to help community food organisations price their produce and explains why this is important both for them individually and for the alternative food system as a whole.

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This Local Action on Food report highlights the commercial opportunities for community grown produce and showcases initiatives that are doing it already. The report shows examples of food that is being produced as close to the market place as possible and the opportunities for community food growing projects to make links more widely in the community as well as generate income to contribute towards project costs and to lift the ambitions of the people involved.

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This joint report from the Children’s Food Campaign (CFC) and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) reveals the manipulative tactics junk food manufacturers use to hook children while they play online and entice them to eat foods loaded with fat, salt and sugar. The report assesses how junk food manufacturers bombard kids online in a bit to push these unhealthy products. The CFC and BHF are calling for consistent advertising regulations across all forms of media to protect children and their future health.

All the brands featured in the report are products which are high in fat, salt or sugar (HFSS). Advertisements for these products can’t be shown during children’s television programmes because they fail the Food Standards Agency and Ofcom nutrient profiling test. Yet due to a loophole in advertising regulations, companies are allowed to market these products and brands freely via the internet.

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Case Study of a Health Crisis finds there has been an alarming rise in new farm superbugs, especially MRSA and E. coli that are passing to humans. The report links this rise to the fact that nearly 50% of all antibiotics are used in farming and argues that one of the fundamental causes of food and animal-related antibiotic resistance is factory farming.

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The 2011 Good Food for London report provides maps of London’s 33 Boroughs to reveal how London Boroughs are taking action to help create a healthy and sustainable food system, for the benefit of everyone. It assesses London Borough progress on issues such as community food growing, school food, food waste, encouraging food outlets to serve healthier food, and buying ethical products, including Fairtrade, free range eggs and sustainable fish. The report shows that nearly a third of London Boroughs (ten) are making excellent progress, but others are lagging behind. Compiled by Sustain's London Food Link, with contributions from many independent organisations that promote healthy and sustainable food, and several members of the London Food Board.

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