Notts Green News

These guys will be demonstrating at the Nottingham Riverside Festival:
http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=14480
Video from last year:

Main Website:  http://www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/

In the UK - we throw away half of all the food we buy. The Love Food Hate Waste Roadshow is designed to change consumer behaviour towards food waste. The team will be at the Riverside Festival from 12noon until 8pm on Saturday 6 August and 12noon until 6pm on Sunday 7 August.

More to come here

Local veg box scheme
http://www.ecoworks.org.uk/veg-box-in-nottingham/

Farmers Markets:  http://www.broxtowe.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1278

Very interesting listening:  From Radio 4 Food Programme, 1st Nov 2010
How the better hospital food programme has been implemented at NUH - Notts University Hospital has created its own locally sourced food supply chain for a million meals per year

Policy Levers: A sustainable public food model seeks to create policy that all food paid for with public money meets minimum standards of health and sustainability - see the links in this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vkns1

Labour MP Joan Walley (Stoke on Trent North) has tabled the Private Members Bill

Listen to the program here:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vkns1/Food_Programme_Sustainable_Public_Food_and_Nottingham/

See also:  http://slowfoodnottingham.wordpress.com/2011/02/16/local-hospitals-serve-quality-food-bombshell/