by Peter Samsom | Nov 28, 2019 | Food Durham, Uncategorized
In March, Beamish signed the Durham County Council Single Use Pledge and have been working hard to remove unnecessary single use plastic wherever possible. Over the last 9 months they have introduced a number of measures, including: Eradicated plastic bottles – they...
by Peter Samsom | Nov 28, 2019 | Food Durham, Uncategorized
Over recent months the media have been full of stories about meat consumption and climate change. The number of people who are choosing a vegetarian or vegan diet has been increasing, but the debate can be quite polarising leaving livestock farmers (like those in...
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...
