Let’s put Plymouth’s Best Food Forward together
Ready to join Plymouth’s Good Food Movement and take action as an enterprise, organisation, community group or individual? Now’s the time to pledge action and help put Plymouth’s Best Food Forward as a truly Sustainable Food Place that works for people and planet. Everyone can play a part and your action(s) could be all sorts of things. Here are a few examples to give you a flavour…
What you could do: ideas to get you started
As an individual:
- Have a go at grow-your-own veg (you can start with just a windowsill) and using the Harvest-ometer tool from Good to Grow to calculate a money value, meal value and carbon value from your harvest
- Buy Fairtrade produce whenever you can – check out this list from Fairtrade Foundation for starters
- Turn your food waste into beautiful compost with help from the Generous Earth network of community composters
- Start a food co-operative with your neighbours to bulk buy food together, save money and make new connections
As an organisation:
- Prioritise procurement that champions food grown and produced locally and sustainably – for inspiration and ideas read about how the University of Plymouth is already doing this in the city
- Become a Real Living Wage Employer, helping your employees to afford good quality, healthy food through fair pay for all
- Be part of the Sugar Smart and Veg Cities campaigns in Plymouth
As a food enterprise:
- Join the Plymouth Good Food Directory by completing this short survey
- Reduce your plastic pollution by becoming a Plastic-Free Plymouth champion
- Be part of the Sugar Smart and Veg Cities campaigns in Plymouth
By pledging your action, it will form part of a growing collection showcasing the exciting ways that Plymouth communities, businesses and institutions are making positive changes to our local food system. We can’t wait to hear from you.
