Blogs
‘Love Food – Love Bridport’ market a great success
Held this year for the first time on the Millennium Green in Bridport, the Love Food – Love Bridport Market replaced the popular annual Bridport Food Festival event at Asker Meadows which was not possible to run with the current Covid-19 restrictions. The free...
This is why we need more local food production: food shortages could be imminent…
Many experts are forecasting a much-increased risk of food shortages in the UK, both in the near term and for many years ahead. The immediate reasons for this arise from covid and Brexit, the major ongoing reason is climate change. Many agricultural and horticultural...
Meet the producer: Nick Phillips, Chris Gasson tell us about Chideock Champignons, their gourmet mushroom farm in Chideock:
We are Chideock Champignons, a gourmet mushroom farm in Chideock, West Dorset. We call ourselves ‘gourmet’ because ‘alternative’ would sound weird and unpalatable, given the fact we’re talking about mushrooms. We grow oyster mushrooms, shiitakes, lions mane, wine caps...
Bridport Food Matters stall at Food Festival: a big success!
The Bridport Food Matters stall at the Festival Food Market on June 19 attracted a lot of visitors, and prompted many useful conversations. A couple of hundred people took away BFM leaflets with information about the new website, and many of them also signed up for...
Open Veg Gardens: a successful adventure!
Photo: Robert Golden On May 19, Bridport Food Matters ran an Open Veg and Fruit Gardens Afternoon. This was our first in-person event for over a year, and worked out well. Six locations had kindly volunteered as hosts, and we had about forty visitors. We had thanks...
Bridport’s flourishing food scene: 2030
1. Introduction During the pandemic, many of us have hoped to create a better future ahead, not just a return to the past. We need to create a positive vision together, and this thinks piece aims to help our Bridport community to evolve this for our food economy....
Meet your food grower: Lally and Tomas of Springtail Farm
Photo by Justin Owen Lally and Tomas are among a group of several young growers agroecological farming in the vicinity of Bridport. “We strive to farm in a way that builds health in the soil, in the plants, and in our community.” “Our growing practices are considerate...
How to make my allotment more resilient
Photo: Pete Millson Rachel Millson, from Symene Allotments in West Road shares her thinking about increasing resilience through growing food: A couple of times a year the Simene river breaks its banks leaving my allotment submerged under a foot of water. Although the...
Bridport Local Food Group
New food and drink 'Lockdown Hero' awards The Bridport Local Food Group’s new Food & Drink ‘Lockdown Hero’ awards has been devised to recognise and say a BIG 'THANK YOU' to the local food & drink businesses: cafes, restaurants, pubs, butchers, bakers,...
Bridport food security: hopes for 2021
It’s just over a year since Seeding our Future started its initiative on this issue. I’d like to highlight some of the progress from 2020: Wider awareness of climate change threats among local organisations and individuals Several well-attended briefing and...
Britain’s fragile food security insights from Tim Lang
by Caroline Walker I have a nice personal memory of Professor Tim Lang. In 2001 I had just retired as head of the Small School in Hartland, North Devon, a very small independent secondary school where cooking the lunch together was a foundational practice. I heard...
Food security: how your community can take the initiative
There are many aspects of the Covid and climate crises where you may feel disempowered, dependent on government responses. However, food security is an issue where individuals and communities have scope for positive action now! Britain’s food self-sufficiency has...
Digging deeper into local food
Online briefing and discussion: Tuesday January 12, 7.00-8.30pm Organised and hosted by Transition Town Bridport and Seeding our Future Our food supply is more fragile than it appears. Some 40% of our food comes from abroad, and depends on good harvests, stable...
Why local food matters for Bridport
Bridport has a reputation as a foodie centre, but how solid is our local food security? Several local organisations believe we need to grow and buy more of our produce locally: you can find out more at their stall on Barrack Street in the December 12 Farmers Market....