Sustainability

Buy local!

A lot of food in the big supermarkets travels hundreds and even thousands of miles before it gets to you. This uses a lot of oil in transportation and causes a huge amount of pollution – adding to climate change.

Money spent directly within your town with independent businesses or local farmers and producers stays within your community (providing them with a fairer price and helping create more jobs) – trade fairly with our own producers!

So buying local food can help support local economies, reduce the miles food travels and reduces the amount of packaging waste. You can also eat foods that are in season – enjoy them when they are plentiful and fresh – get back in tune with the rhythms of nature!

Some tips

Take your own carrier bags or cool box to the farmers’ markets to save precious resources and cut down on waste.  Reduce, reuse, recycle!

Buy a big sack of potatoes with friends and neighbours or join (even start!) a local co-operative.

Cycle, walk or catch a bus to your nearest farmers’ market or local food outlet. Not only will you work up an appetite for all that delicious local food, but you’ll get exercise too and help cut down on carbon emissions.

Grow your own food on an allotment (see allotments page)