Brighton & Hove Food Partnership
By Jess Crocker
The Brighton & Hove Food Partnership is a membership organisation that is working towards a sustainable food system for Brighton & Hove. We believe that healthy people make a healthy city and that all residents should be able to enjoy food that is nutritious and produced in ways that respect the environment, animals and people.
We undertake lobbying work and provide training and information to achieve:
- better access to affordable fresh, seasonal food
- more locally produced food
- more opportunities to learn to cook and grow food
- a better understanding of the links between food and health
- a better understanding of where food comes from.
Our projects include community cookery, healthy weight service, school food work and Harvest Brighton & Hove.
http://www.bhfood.org.uk
About Harvest Brighton & Hove
Harvest aims to increase the amount of food grown in the city: on windowsills, in back gardens, in allotments, and in community spaces like parks and around housing estates. We want to ensure that fresh, local produce is available and accessible equally to all residents in Brighton & Hove.
We are working with partners such as the Allotment Federation, the council and community food projects around the city. We are scrumping apples from trees to prevent waste and make delicious juices and chutneys. And we are running a programme to redistribute surplus allotment produce to community food projects like lunch clubs and cookery sessions. We are also working to open up new land for food growing and supporting community food projects. There are plenty of opportunities to get involved: through volunteering at a project, coming on a training course about growing or cooking, or attending one of our community food events.
http://www.harvest-bh.org.uk