Bristol Local Food Fund volunteer, Mali Sion Evans, writes our latest Bristol Bites Back opinion blog. Mali explores inconsistencies in our food system that can lead to misplaced assumptions about the realities of food insecurity in the UK, and explains why Bristol needs a local food fund. Find out how you can get involved.
Hannah Bush, Sustainability Project Manager for Food at Bristol City Council, writes the latest Bristol Bites Back Better blog about the Glasgow Food and Climate Declaration; what it means for Bristol and other cities; and the importance of the climate impacts of food and farming being part of the COP26 agenda.
Tom Richardson from The Community Farm writes our latest blog about The Farm’s new campaign to coincide with the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). The campaign focuses on how to choose food that’s better for the planet. Both food businesses and the citizens who eat from them have a vital role to play – find out what you can do.
Michael Lloyd-Jones from Bristol Local Food Fund (BLFF) writes about how BLFF is creating a sustainable, central funding pot to support community food projects that tackle food insecurity. This includes creating a Citizens Panel of people with lived experience of food insecurity. Read on to find out how to support this vital work.
When we launched the Bristol Bites Back Better campaign in November, we wanted to get the conversation going and hear from the people of Bristol. We asked two simple questions, and got a wide range of answers so far, giving us insight into what Bristol citizens want to see happening in our city, and who deserves celebration. Insights Manager at cycling charity Love to Ride, Fleur, has compiled some of the responses in our latest blog post. You can still get involved!
Without having any prior gardening experience, café-owners Faruk and Shilpi Choudhury of Chai Shai Kitchen started an edible garden in the grounds of their flat at Carrick House, Hotwells in the lockdown of spring 2020. This encouraged others in the local community to get involved and “Joy Hill” was formed. Read this inspiring story in our latest #BiteBackBetter blog post by Faruk.
In the final blog in our series about a post COVID-19 sustainable food future, Bristol public health medic Dr Angela Raffle explores how we find ways to help everyone in the city understand where our food comes from. How do we radically shift our collective awareness about food? This is part of a series of blog posts looking at how we can emerge from the coronavirus pandemic with a more resilient food system, each blog introduced by Bristol Going for Gold Coordinator, Joy Carey.
Essential Trading is the lead partner for Bristol Bites Back Better, the latest campaign from the team behind Bristol’s bid to be a Gold Sustainable Food City, which aims to create a resilient future for the city through food. Essential’s Jimmy Nelson writes in our latest blog post about the co-operative’s history and values and how they have offered a different model of food supply since the 1970s.
The Bristol Going for Gold team launches a new campaign today that gives people the power to make our city and communities stronger through food, now and into the next decade. Bristol Bites Back Better highlights the central role food plays in our lives, not only during lockdown, but also as a vital part of a strong recovery.
In this blog post St Pauls resident Sonja Ayres describes how she set up the Mother Earth Bristol veg box scheme during the pandemic. She describes her motivations for living in a more sustainable way and how she was inspired to get the scheme off the ground.
