Your community-grown salad couldn't be more fresh or local
Community food-growing enterprises are increasingly looing to sell ultra-locally grown food to local restaurants and catering outlets. Community food-growing spaces are springing up all over London thanks to the Capital Growth campaign, aiming for 2,012 new community food growing spaces for London by the end of 2012, and with over 1,200 new spaces already, it's going strong! Capital Growth is a partnership initiative between London Food Link, the Mayor of London and the Big Lottery's Local Food Fund.
Many of these community groups are interested in growing more food to sell, to cover the costs of their projects and help make themselves more viable in the long term. You can contact local community growers via the Capital Growth website by entering your postcode or borough.
Local Action on Food Network has published a guide for community groups to start trading in locally grown food, which is also useful to independent restaurants and smaller catering outlets looking to buy ultra-fresh and ultra-locally grown food, and to make better connections with their local community.
Read more on the Local Action on Food website
Published Monday 3 October 2011
Food Legacy: The campaign, launched October 2011, is inspired by the London 2012 Food Vision adopted by the organisers of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Food Legacy asks caterers, restaurants, event organisers and hospitality organisations to commit publicly to taking steps to improve the healthiness, ethics and sustainability of the food they serve.
