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Are you passionate about vegetables and want to do your bit to make it easier for everyone to eat more veg?  If so, then finding out about becoming a Veg Advocate might just be for you.  Food Durham, the County Durham Food Partnership and the Food Foundation are...

When you think about activities for the autumn half-term holidays it's not unusual to think about Halloween, pumpkins and trick or treating. It may all be a bit different this year, but whatever the circumstances, doing activities around pumpkins can still be very...

This year, Durham County Council is running a Garden Treasures competition for residents to share the outdoor spaces they have created during lockdown and celebrate how gardening is helping people cope during this challenging time. Our gardens can also improve our...

You may remember VegPower from the #EatThemToDefeatThem in schools, encouraging children to tackle more veg. This summer we can all get involved in the campaign to promote seasonal vegetables. There is a glut of fresh UK grown veg and eating seasonal veg is delicious...

Women who are pregnant or have a child under the age of four could be eligible for Healthy Start Vouchers to help buy some basic foods including vegetables. This important scheme provides the vouchers to spend with local retailers. Pregnant women and children over one...

Sustainable Food Places (SFP) organised a Day of Celebration and Action on the 10th of June to showcase the incredible work local food partnerships are doing across the UK to meet the needs arising from the coronavirus crisis while continuing to work towards the...

Responding to the Government announcement that open air markets could reopen, the management committee of Barnard Castle Farmers’ Market decided to reopen on Saturday 6 June 2020. Durham County Council’s nine regular outdoor markets will also restart across the County...

Many of you will have heard about the Government’s vouchers scheme to ensure families that qualify for free school meals continue to have access to good healthy food whilst schools across the county have been closed. The voucher scheme wasn’t without its problems but...

In the light of the changed advice with regard to the Corona COVID-19 outbreak we have decided to postpone the Veg Advocates workshop which had been due to take place tomorrow, Wednesday 18 March 2020.  Those of you who signed up will have received an email about it. ...

Following the retirement of Food Manager Dr Liz Charles earlier this year, we've reviewed how we communicate with everyone interested in the food system across County Durham.  Liz used to send regular snippets to people on her mailing list and the Growing Durham team...

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...

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 watered and...

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...

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...

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...

As part of the VegPowerUK campaign #EatThemToDefeatThem pupils at Our Lady and St Joseph's Brooms Catholic Primary School in Leadgate have been getting creative with the veg of the week as well as eating them. The children are really enjoying the campaign and  are...

Friday 25 January 2019 saw the launch of the National VegPower advertising campaign #EatThemToDefeatThem with adverts on during ITV's Coronation Street and a day later on The Voice.  The campaign is aimed at encouraging children to jpoin the fight to 'defeat the evil...

Durham County Council have excellent standards in their restaurants!  We're proud to have helped them to develop procurement policies so staff are encouraged to eat healthy, sustainable and ethical food.