by Peter Samsom | Nov 28, 2019 | Food Durham, Growing Durham, Uncategorized
There’s a new community garden in town – Growing Durham’s Edible Gilesgate project worked alongside Durham Action on Single Homelessness to create an edible garden in their carpark. The initial aim was to cheer up the area with a few planters and we commissioned...
by Peter Samsom | Nov 28, 2019 | Food Durham, Growing Durham, Uncategorized
Join Garden Organic’s campaign to reduce the use of peat-based compost and download our handy guide to making leaf compost. Those of you who follow us on Twitter (look for @Food_Durham) might have noticed a few posts relating to use of peat in garden compost. ...
by Peter Samsom | Nov 28, 2019 | Food Durham, Uncategorized
Food Durham led a Pumpkin Rescue this Autumn as part of its VegCities campaign, aiming to reduce food waste and raise awareness of local food production. We worked with a local farm and groups to promote local produce and help people turn leftover pumpkins into...
by Peter Samsom | Nov 28, 2019 | Food Durham, Uncategorized
Hundreds of students and their parents were welcomed back to Durham for the new academic year by a veg takeover of the farmers’ market in the city centre as part of Food Durham’s VegCities campaign. The takeover was a partnership of Visit County Durham (VCD),...
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...
