SUSTAIN London Food Link Join us Action Good Food for London Events Donate Welcome to London Food Link Campaigning for a healthy, sustainable and ethical food system for the Capital Through our London focused projects we strive for a food system that benefits all Londoners. You can support our work by joining the London Food Link Network, a network of organisations and individuals helping to transform the Capital’s food. Join our charity’s supporter network The benefits Time for a children's health fund? A sugary drinks duty would save London £39m How your borough could benefit Take Action We are calling on all London borough councils to introduce the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative for all the community services they run. Take action now Good Food for London 2014 Our annual league table shines a light on London’s local authorities taking straightforward and significant steps to improve food in their borough - as well as those lagging behind Check your borough Urban Food Awards Londoners have crowned the best small food enterprises in The Smoke See the winners Contact: Ross Compton 020 7065 0902 ross@sustainweb.org London's food growing network A project to help small and medium-sized London Food businesses reduce their food waste Challenging businesses and citizens to make London the world's first Sustainable Fish Cities Campaigning for the Capital's pollinators London Food Link is a partner in Urban Food Routes Freshers’ fayre Imagine a student eating his or her dinner. Be honest - what are you picturing? Beans on toast? Instant noodles with ketchup? Piers Telemacque says that this sort of stereotype is one that should be fading fast. A spade new world We’ve often written about Londoners embracing food growing as a way to take more control over what they eat. Now Jennifer Parker looks at some who are taking this further to make a living. We must stop meating like this… Monday rolls round, and for many people it means shaking off a weekend of binging, boozing and laziness. Rosie Gilchrist says that it’s also a day on which increasing numbers are kickin’ the chicken and shunning the steer. Jellied Eel website Publications Click on the publications listed below to find out more information and download your copy. Good Food for London 2014 16/10/2014 How London Boroughs can help secure a healthy and sustainable food future Reaping Rewards: Can communities grow a million meals for London? 05/08/2014 For nearly two decades, Sustain has worked to improve policy and practice on urban food growing. This landmark report, Reaping Rewards, tracks the achievements of the Growing a Million Meals for London campaign, run by the Capital Growth network, helping 160 community food growing spaces in London to record over 21 tonnes of produce, worth over £150,000. On this basis, we estimate that London's community food growers could be growing as much as £1.4 million worth of food over the course of a year. Capital Growth: Annual Monitoring Survey 2013 19/05/2014 Every year, Capital Growth carries out a survey of its community food growing spaces. This survey allows us to find out about the people involved, assess the value of the support the network offers and helps inform its future development. This year’s survey, sent out early 2014, asked members about their activities in 2013. Grow More Food: Top Tips 15/05/2014 This toolkit provides a useful overview and top tips of how you can improve the yield of your growing site. Developed as part of the Growing a Million Meals for London campaign the document is split into six sections – 1) Managing your growing sites, 2) Designing your growing space, 3) Crop rotation and useful growing techniques4) Looking after your soil, 5)Crop selection and protection for healthy yields, 6)Keeping costs down. Edible estates 13/05/2014 This guide has been developed by Neighbourhoods Green, Capital Growth and Planning Aid for London to share learning and good practice from communities and social landlords who have been involved in food growing initiatives on social housing owned land. The guide offers a practical guide to support those working for or with housing providers in collaboration with local people, to establish food growing schemes. Growing Health Case Study: Harvest 24/03/2014 The Brighton & Hove Food Partnership is a not-for-profit organisation that works on all aspects of food. They run a range of community-based projects that cover cooking, healthy eating, weight management, food growing and reducing food waste, whilst also taking a citywide strategic and lobbying role. Reducing food waste: Advice from chefs and catering professionals 13/02/2014 The document contains wise words and inspiration from GreenCook Food Waste Ambassadors in the UK and Netherlands. These are networks of skilled and passionate food professionals, who have a wealth of knowledge about the industry. They share their advice on how to create more sustainable dishes whilst curbing food waste. Good Food for London 2013 - London Borough maps of progress on healthy and sustainable food 10/10/2013 The Good Food for London 2013 report provides a league table of local authorities support for key good food initiatives, such as community food growing, high quality school food, helping local food outlets serve healthier food, and buying ethical food in schools and local authority canteens - including Fairtrade products, cage-free eggs and sustainable fish. Cracking Community Cafés: Getting the food right 22/07/2013 The second in an series of fact sheets produced by Ethical Eats and Making Local Food Work to help new and existing community cafés get to grips with the basics of running a successful enterprise. This fact sheet looks at your menu and ingredients. It suggests ways to serve up delicious, local and sustainable food whilst keeping prices affordable. It also suggests ways to keep food waste in check. The Sustain Guide to Good Food: How to help make our food and farming system fit for the future 21/06/2013 Not sure whether to buy local or organic, fish or meat, from the farmers' market or supermarket? This guide should help. Drawing on the expertise of Sustain's member organistions it sets out what you can do – and ask others to do – to help make our food and farming system fit for the future. London Food Link publications archive Join our email list Enter your email address below to hear the latest news from London Food Link. First name Surname Email Sustain will save and store the information you enter. We will not share this information with anyone else. Twitter The latest from @londonfoodlink Tweets by @LondonFoodLink Follow us on twitter News The latest news from London Food Link and its projects A sugary drinks duty would save London £39m in healthcare costs Sustain response to new Parliamentary Inquiry on Food Poverty and Hunger Rosie Boycott presents inaugural Urban Food Awards Sustain response to Local welfare provision consultation Rosie Boycott calls on London boroughs to do more to support breastfeeding News archive Food events calendar The following events are taking place over the next week Sun 28 London Farmers' Markets: various locations The Food Market Chiswick Duck Pond Farmers’ Market: Ruislip Noel Park Market City & Country Farmers' Markets: Alexandra Palace, Eltham, Herne Hill, Kentish Town Brentford Market Peckham Farmers' Market Wapping Market Abbeville Road Produce Market Kew Village Market Wapping Market Mon 29 Tue 30 Wed 31 Swiss Cottage Farmers Market Spitalfields City Farm - Get Your Hands Dirty Growing Food Thu 1 St. Hilda's Community Food Co-op City & Country Farmers' Market: Hammersmith Fri 2 Sat 3 London Farmers' Markets: various locations Weekly organic market, Waltham Forest Stoke Newington's Farmers' Market Crystal Palace Food Market Maida Hill Market Camberwell Farmers' Market Brockley Market City & Country Farmers' Markets: Lewisham, Oval and Stepney Waltham Forest weekly market Horniman Farmers' Market Richmond Farmers' Market Visit the events calendar for full details Share Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming Sustain advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, promote equity and enrich society and culture. 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