Food Resilience Reports and Information

• From Just in Time to Just in Case: 7 Steps to Narrowing the Civil Food Resilience Gap, Professor Tim Lang et al for the National Preparedness Commission, 2025

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Shropshire and the Marches Groups: Grow Food & Community

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• A list of Shropshire Community Gardens to join and support

• The Right to Grow Movement -

  • Guidance for Community Groups, by the Street Allotment Project

  • ​Guidance for Councils, by SGFP​

  • Shropshire Council Portal for Right to Grow Applications

• The Marcher Apple Network

• Little Woodbatch Farm: Food Resilience Skills & Courses

• Building Inclusive Food Movements: Race, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Food System

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Up-Skilling Resources: 

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Food Preservation:

• The National Centre for Home Food Preservation - How to preserve food (Comprehensive US Resource)

• The Canning Diva: Home Canning Information & Books (Food Preservation)

 

Seed Saving:

• Seed Saving Resources:

  • Vital Seeds Online Course​ 

  • The Gaia Foundation's Seed Sovereignty programme. Check out their year long seed saver's programs. 

  • Real Seeds Website: Lots of handy seed saving info on their site, including Plans for their seed cleaner for small scale seed saving projects

  • Wales seed hub - An interesting project/model and a great group of people 

  • Downloadable Seed Saving 'postcards' for use by community groups and seed banks from the Bishop's Castle Seed Bank

    • Lettuce

    • Tomatoes​

    • Peas

    • Beans

    • Sweet Peppers and Chillies​

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Land Stewardship

• Regenerative, organic and agroecology: What’s the difference? - from Wicked Leeks Magazine

• Middle Marches Community Land Trust

• Marches Meadows Group

• Roots to Regeneration: Training Programme - For Farmers and Professionals working in the food system.

• Dr. Elaine Ingram's Soil Food Web School

• Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food & Farming. Community Activist Toolkit - Taking Action Against Factory Farms​

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Reducing Food Waste

• Shrewsbury Food Hub - 'Taste with no Waste Challenge' and info 

• Love Food Hate Waste tools and info

• Shropshire Master Composters 

• WRAP - Transforming food waste in food enterprises: The waste reduction roadmap

• How to Start a Gleaning Network, from Feedback UK

 

Healthy Food for Everyone

• Shropshire Food Poverty Alliance

• List of Shropshire Food Banks and how to access food assistance

• Good Food Oxford Cooking Toolkit

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Political Engagement

• Who is my local MP?

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Food & Climate

• Community Carbon Calculator

• Shropshire Climate Action

• LightFoot Enterprises