by Peter Samsom | Nov 28, 2019 | Food Durham, Uncategorized
The Food Durham newsletter is designed to give you a flavour of the breadth of work taking place across the partnership, all of which aims to support the development of a better food system for County Durham. This year we aim to engage as many organisations and...
by Peter Samsom | Oct 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Carved your pumpkins for Halloween? Make sure you don’t waste the cut out bits and even the pumpkin seeds: they are all good food! If you’re really savvy you could pick up some really cheap ones after the event and make the most of cheap food. As part of the...
by foodteam | Sep 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
What’s scarier than witches, ghosts and ghouls at Halloween? How about the 18,000 tonnes of edible pumpkin that ends up in the bin each year. That’s the same weight as 1,500 double decker buses! That’s food that farmers have grown, that has been...
by foodteam | Aug 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
You may have spotted talk about shortages of fresh salad leaves this autumn and winter and if you want to to make sure you can continue to feed your salad habit now is the time to start sowing them. Most of them with benefit from a bit of protection in a greenhouse...
by foodteam | Apr 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
As you may have spotted the VegPower campaign, which is drew to a close just before Easter 2019, had 10 vegetables of the week and families across the county have been eating them to defeat them for weeks. Following a brilliant idea by Richard from the Leadgate...
by foodteam | Mar 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
About sixty people came to the Food Durham Annual Gathering at Collingwood College in Durham in mid March 2019 to hear about the progress of the County Durham Food Partnership over the past few years. Food Partnership Manager Dr Liz Charles described the journey of...
