Just a few hours till the start of our second Cornwall Good Food Summit at Nancarrow Farm on Monday 2 December.
Cornwall’s good food culture is the topic under discussion for our afternoon panel of speakers. We’re asking them:
How do we build strong, resilient and cohesive communities around local food?
How do we ensure access to growing spaces and food skills?
How do we make connections between people and good food for the health of land and sea?
Steve Chamberlain, alongside his wife Lucy, transformed the 100-acre, organic Nancarrow Farm into a successful farm-to-table destination. It hosts feasts, suppers, lunches, school visits, weddings, and community events and welcomes more than 15,000 visitors all year round.
The farm produces and consumes on site organic beef and lamb, fruit, honey, charcoal, and vegetables from its own no-dig market garden.
Nancarrow also partners with Cornwall Wildlife Trust to manage two local nature reserves.
Shelley Jamieson is at the forefront of the Cornwall Healthy Schools partnership. She leads the development of Cornwall Council’s Healthy Schools Toolkit that empowers schools across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly to boost the health and well-being of pupils, their families and the wider community.
Earlier in her career Shelley specialised in delivering nutrition training to early years practitioners, providing support with menu planning, and promoting good health for young children wherever they live, learn and play.
Graham Bradshaw is the current chairman of Truro Farmers Market, established 25 years ago. His role includes mentoring the new producers and organising theme days.
The market has recently brought back the Truro Food Festival which attracted a very large audience and is on the agenda for 2025.
Graham also sells Cornish products, mainly Cornish Sea Salt, at farmers’ markets all over Cornwall and Devon. Previously he ran an events management company and is very passionate about Cornish food and encouraging people to buy local.
Lynn Dyer founded Growing Links- The Community Garden in 2013 to create a more sustainable, accessible and resilient food system. Based in Gulval, Penzance, it produces enough sustainably-grown vegetables, soft fruit, cut flowers and herbs to feed 50 families weekly and provide 20 volunteer lunches six days a week
The volunteer-led Growing Links – Street Food Project Street Food Project provides hot meals seven days a week all year. Volunteers from the Growing Links Food Store help put together bags of essentials for families or individuals in need.
Growing Links’ Young Food Activists project for 11-15s aims to build self-confidence and wellbeing.
