In a meeting this week, I put forward the proposal that if we're serious about food resilience in the UK, all agricultural universities should host a Seed Bank (or Seed Multiplier Unit) with an associated mandate to grow, maintain and multiply seed (after all, agriculture is more than just meat, dairy and arable grains.) The logic is this: We know that the UK is not food secure or resilient - this goes for seed even more so than it does for food (just no one 'sees' seed) Most

Over the past year, working with schools through Schools Food Web , Eat Club  and Food System Live sessions , one thing has become clear: when children are given the space to explore food properly, they don’t just change what they eat — they change how they think  about food. Rather than focusing narrowly on “healthy choices”, this work supports pupils to understand food as a system  — shaped by farming, processing, marketing, time, access and culture. This approach reflects

Food is ‘macro’: people see and relate to food, but seed is ‘micro’ and has become invisible. But so are atoms. Both are absolutely elemental to our existence. So often at SGFP, we're having conversations about issues that are at the heart of our local or national food struggles. All issues are connected: "wicked problems", as they're often called... so we have to think in systems. I learned this through years of food systems research, but food resilience really hit home as a

Earlier today I attended a powerful Food for Thought  webinar hosted by the Food Standards Agency, featuring new research from Trussell  (Report Link) that explored a question many of us working in food and community spaces quietly wrestle with: Why are so many people going without food and other essentials, but not accessing charitable food support? The findings were sobering, this wasn't a hopeful webinar. Across the UK, an estimated 4.5 million households are food insecure

Slide deck available below. Overview of the AGM What the Partnership Is Member of the national Sustainable Food Places  network Works across education, community, farming, policy and resilience Mission to relocalise, regenerate, reconnect and build county-wide resilience Key Achievements This Year £100,000+  secured in project grants 130 Good Food Trail venues 2,000 children  engaged via smoothie bike 23 schools  in the Schools Food Web National influence via parliamentary da