Posted on June 7th, 2011
This year we have introduced food passports for our younger visitors. The idea is that children can collect a passport from one of our information points, and start their journey through the town centre and into the Community Garden. They can taste their way around the participating stalls and try different foods [...]
Posted on June 2nd, 2011
Join Made in Cheshire for some great benefits for local food and drink producers!!! A message from Made in Cheshire head Jane Casson: From the 3rd June I will be running Made in Cheshire on a different basis and concentrating on the elements which the members have indicated to me would be most valuable [...]
Posted on May 9th, 2011
Calling all festival stallholders! Would you like to help make this Food & Drink Festival even more sustainable and environmentally-friendly? Would you be interested in using eco-friendly catering disposables to do this? Green Gate Bio Packaging supplies a wide range of more environmentally sustainable disposables including biodegradable fibre plates, compostable coffee and juice cups, eco-friendly [...]
Posted on March 29th, 2011
Making Local Food Work is now accepting bookings for their 2011 conference, Rooting Community Food in an Enterprising Future! Book your ticket now from http://makinglocalfoodwork4.eventbrite.com/. The event will take place on Thursday 12 May at Sheffield City Hall. Join us to expand your thinking around the essential skills required to develop community food enterprises. Our [...]
Posted on March 7th, 2011
*In local news, Congleton’s own Purple Laura (Laura Campbell) has won a silver award for her Seville and spice marmalade at the world’s original marmalade awards at Damelain in the Lake District. Purple Laura is one of the original stallholders at the Congleton Food & Drink Festival. Well done Laura from the Festival Team! *2 [...]
Posted on February 16th, 2011
Are you a talented home cook with an amazing historic family recipe? If so, ITV’s favourite Celebrity Chef Gino D’Acampo wants to hear from YOU! Gino D’Acampo is on a mission to prove that “There’s No Taste Like Home”. He’s on the hunt for home cooks with fantastic family recipes, undiscovered gems, good, honest family [...]
Posted on January 24th, 2011
So happy to have the website up and running again. We lost our first site to the great virtual graveyard, then another site was kept going in the interim created by Tim Muston and Linda Ward so many many thanks to them for all the work they put into it. Now we have the final version and thanks to Twizzlebird Creative for setting this one up for us.
Here is the latest newsletter from Making Local Food work. This month a conference special! To download a PDF please Click here