Britain: it's time to Bake Your Lawn!

On 24th January, the Real Bread Campaign launches Bake Your Lawn, a scheme to encourage children around Britain to plant wheat in February and March to follow the Real Bread journey from seed to sandwich on their own doorsteps.

Free to download from http://www.realbreadcampaign.org/, the Bake Your Lawn information pack will be a grassroots guide for teachers and parents helping children of all ages, starting with just a small patch of earth and a handful of wheat, to grow it, mill it, bake it, eat it.  Between them, Bake Your Lawn companions will be: making seed wheat available; organising community harvesting, milling and baking days; and encouraging their members to get involved.

Current Bake Your Lawn companions include the Big Lottery Fund's Local Food programme, which provides funding for the Campaign; Bakery Bits; The National Trust;  Organic Seed Producers; Slow Food UK; The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (Mills Section); The Soil Association; The Traditional Cornmillers Guild; and Trevor Cope Seeds; as well as many Real Bread Campaign members. The Campaign would like to hear from others who would like to join this coalition of the milling.

Part of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, the Real Bread Campaign champions locally-baked, 100% additive-free loaves and finds ways to make bread better for us, better for our communities and better for the planet.  

You can find further information about the Campaign, its work and how to become a member at http://www.realbreadcampaign.org/

For more information please contact Chris Young: realbread@sustainweb.org or 0203 5596 777
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Notes to editors

Local Food: has been developed by a consortium of 15 national environmental organisations, and is managed on their behalf by the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT). Supported by the Big Lottery Fund's Changing Spaces programme, Local Food has distributed grants to a variety of food related projects to make locally grown food more accessible. http://www.localfoodgrants.org/

The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT): is a registered charity, incorporated by Royal Charter, to promote conservation and manage environmental programmes throughout the whole of the UK. It has established management systems for holding and distributing funds totalling more than �20 million annually to environmental projects across the UK.

The Big Lottery Fund's Changing Spaces programme was launched in November 2005 to help communities enjoy and improve their local environments. The programme funds a range of activities from local food schemes and farmers markets, to education projects teaching people about the local environment.

The Big Lottery Fund, the largest of the National Lottery good cause distributors, has been rolling out �2 million in Lottery good cause money every 24 hours to health, education, environment and charitable causes across the UK. http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/.

The Sheepdrove Trust provides generous annual funding to the Campaign.