Spaces and Places for Food Expo
16th January 2019 Members of the Food Plymouth core team, along with many Food Plymouth partnership and network members enjoyed working with Plymouth City Council’s Thrive Plymouth team at their Spaces and Places…
Remembering John Watson
By Tess Wilmot I was very sad to hear the news last week that John Watson had passed away. John has achieved so much for sustainable farming within the community…
2019 – A Year of Growing Community Abundance
By Tess Wilmot The aim of this Awards for All funded project is to support and enable local community growers like you to create and sustain amazing community gardens…
Fairtrade refreshments at Plymouth Unitarian Church
By Sheila Evans Members of Plymouth Unitarian Church, in Notte Street, have been running a café in the church hall every Wednesday for several months. We serve Fair Trade Tea and Coffee for a small donation to…
Food Plymouth Partners Recognised in Plastic Free Presentation
19th December 2018 Partners in Action – Plastic Free Pledgers In early June last year, Food Plymouth CIC and many members of the Food Plymouth partnership and network signed pledges of…
Feeding the City – Food Entrepreneurs Event in Plymouth
Calling all budding food business social entrepreneurs and others interested in food and entrepreneurship! Food Plymouth CIC is partnering with the King’s Cross Impact Hub to bring the exciting national Feeding…
Food Plymouth CIC – Four Years Old and Counting!
By Ian Smith In 2014, after four years of invaluable support by the Soil Association for Food Plymouth’s partnership and network (which included a substantial part-time paid coordinator post), it…
Feeding the City – New Business Workshops
By Ian Smith Food Plymouth CIC is collaborating with the King’s Cross Impact Hub to bring a Feeding the City Ideation workshop for food sustainability to the city in mid-January. Feeding the City is…
New for 2019 The Growing Community Abundance Project
Food Plymouth has a long track record of supporting a range of edible landscape, foraging and community growing initiatives. However, as we all know, sustaining such projects can be a…
FLAVOUR – An Innovative Collaboration
By Ian Smith As outlined at recent Food Plymouth partnership and network meeting, Food Plymouth CIC has contracted to be an ‘Observer Partner’ in the EU funded FLAVOUR Interreg2Seas project. …
Special thanks to Livewell Southwest
Throughout 2018 Food Plymouth has continued to survive and succeed on what is essentially a shoe string, working to achieve successful collaborative partnerships in order to achieve our shared goals of a more…
Permaculture Design Course
Permaculture Design Course starting January 2019 By Tess Wilmot Permaculture is all about learning from and working with nature to create sustainable systems for life and work. In the words…
Billy Ruffian’s Seasonal Celebration
13th December 2018 By Ian Smith Following the successful launch of Billy Ruffian’s – Plymouth’s community owned and run craft brewery – on Social [Enterprise] Saturday in October, members of…
Spaces and Places for Food
By Claire Turbutt The Spaces and Places for Food project is about finding a creative way to use spaces and places in the city for connecting people, using food as the catalyst. Plymouth is one…
Food Power funding bid success!
By Dr Clare Pettinger We are very pleased to confirm that Food Plymouth has won a £10K funding bid (Food Power) to develop our local Food poverty alliance in Plymouth.…
Fizz Free February!
February 2019 might seem like ages away, but we want to give you plenty of time to prepare to take part in Fizz Free February. Following on from Southwark’s Council’s fantastic campaign…
Commendations & congratulations for Environment Plymouth
By Jackie Young I am really delighted to say that Environment Plymouth has won national recognition at the 2018 Groundwork Community Awards. Thank you to Zoe [Sydenham] at Plymouth City Council…
Plymouth Gardening Gurus
Two of Plymouth’s gardening champions have been sharing their gardening adventures on BBC Radio Devon recently. Dennis Trewin and Tess Wilmot shared their enthusiasm and love of gardening on Toby Buckland’s…
Sustainable Food Cities – What Next?
By Ian Smith The Sustainable Food Cities (SFC) Network is conducting a consultation exercise on the theme of ‘What Next?’ For the national SFC programme. This is a review and…
The launch of the #OneBlueDot project – towards environmentally sustainable dietary patterns
by Clare Pettinger I am thrilled to be able to promote the launch of the British Dietetic Association’s (BDA) new#OneBlueDot project. Having been on the national working group for this project,…
A message from Thrive Plymouth & Food Plymouth
On behalf of Thrive Plymouth and Food Plymouth we would like to thank you for attending the Thrive Plymouth Year 5 launch event on 16th October 2018. It was a…