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Image courtesy of Cornish Fish Producers Organisation.
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Seeds planted: Food in Education developments
Positive change is happening in Cornwall’s schools. Not dramatically, not overnight but in the quiet, steady, meaningful way that real change often unfolds. And it’s happening because we have supported and facilitated meaningful connections. Those connections mean children are trying fresh fish, some for the first time, and licking homemade tomato ketchup from their plates.
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Joining the Dots: A month of peer-to-peer learning for community growers
February was a busy and inspiring month for our Joining the Dots Peer-to-Peer programme, with three well-attended events bringing growers together to share skills, experiences and ideas. From scaling up agroecological production to exploring social prescribing and refreshing training skills, each event highlighted the power of learning from one another within Cornwall’s thriving community growing
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Community Growing Network & Storm Goretti
Last Wednesday marked the first in‑person Community Growers Network meet‑up of the year. It felt like an important moment to regroup and join forces as we face both the opportunities and challenges of 2026. The network has been meeting since 2023 and is now reinvigorated by a largely new group of growers coming together. The
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Creating new opportunities for farmers and landowners
We were delighted to learn more about Landmatch England, a new not-for-profit service that connects landowners with people seeking land, at its online launch event this week. The scheme represents a real opportunity for landowners and land seekers in Cornwall to find new ways of working together that benefit both parties, while creating opportunities for
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Upcoming Events and dates
A round-up of events and workshops. Get in touch to list your event.
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Cornwall wins coveted Sustainable Food Place Silver award
Cornwall has won a prestigious Sustainable Food Places award. The award recognises Sustainable Food Cornwall’s work to promote healthy, sustainable and local food and to tackle some of today’s greatest social challenges; from food poverty and diet-related ill-health to the disappearance of family farms and the loss of independent food retailers. The Sustainable Food Places
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Peer to Peer Learning: Aral Farm – Starting Up as a Community Grower
What a beautiful day to come together for one in our series of peer-to-peer learning sessions at Aral Farm as part of our Joining the Dots Programme. Aral Farm is a new CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) project in the heart of Cornwall, nestled under the shadow of Castle and Dinas. We had a fantastic turnout
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Autumn Skill Shares
SFC are hosting a number of peer learning sessions for community growers as part of its Joining the Dots programme, funded by Farming in Protected Landscapes. Nature Recovery in Practice for Community Growers November 3, The Real Food Garden 1300-1500 Amelia and Chloe have a successful market garden and veg box scheme, farm shop on
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Tregaminion Farm: the Duke of Cornwall’s Award Winner at Royal Cornwall Show
This year’s Royal Cornwall Show was extra special for one Cornish farming family who won the prestigious Duke of Cornwall’s Award for sustainable and wildlife-friendly farming. James Richards, who runs Tregaminion Farm, near Porthallow, and Bruggan Farm, Cadgwith, alongside his father Roger, was presented with the award by the Duke of Cornwall himself. We caught
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Review: The Organic Growers Gathering
SFC’s Community Growing Development Worker Sophie Bailey attended The Organic Growers Gathering over the sunny August bank holiday weekend. It is a small gathering set within the Hardwick estate in Oxfordshire, home to Tolhurst Organics – one of the oldest organic farms in the country. Tolhurst Organics is a stock-free organic market garden and field
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Government Food Strategy is a great framework for action
It’s been a long time coming, but on 15th July the government published Towards a Good Food Cycle, a UK government food strategy for England considering the wider UK food system. Promising joined up government support for the strategy, ministers set out a vision of a healthier, more affordable, sustainable and resilient 21st century UK
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Sustainable Food Cornwall awarded new funding to expand its Joining the Dots for Nature project
Sustainable Food Cornwall has secured a new round of funding for its second phase of the Joining the Dots for Nature project. Following an impactful pilot earlier this year, the project has been working together with 15 community growing schemes across Cornwall, supporting them to better understand and enhance soil health and biodiversity on their
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Upcoming Agricultural Shows for your diary
Agricultural shows are a mainstay of the Cornish farming calendar, but have sadly struggled over recent years. Here are some dates for your diary – they make for brilliant family days out, and help reinforce the connection between land, sea and the food they provide for people. Sustainable Food Cornwall will be at the Royal
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Junk Food Advertising Undermines Public Health: New BMJ Investigation Raises Alarm
A new investigation by The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has exposed the powerful influence of the advertising industry in blocking public health efforts to restrict junk food marketing. As childhood obesity rates continue to soar, the BMJ’s findings underscore the urgent need for systemic change—especially at the local level. A Cornwall Perspective: Why This Matters
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Redruth’s Food Revolution: Two Projects Feeding an Appetite for Change
The roots of change are taking hold in Redruth as two key community growing organisations gear up to move to the next stage of their development. Both the Incredible Edible Redruth project and the town’s Community Supported Agriculture scheme, Grassroots Garden, are preparing to expand and are appealing for volunteers and businesses to get involved.
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Joining the dots for nature
By Sophie Bailey – Community Growing Development Worker. Joining the Dots for Nature (Community Growing) is a pilot project funded by Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL). The project aims to enhance soil health and natural habitats across 15 community growing spaces in or near the Cornwall National Landscape (formerly known as the AONB). I’ve been
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NEW community growing development worker appointed in cornwall
Sustainable Food Cornwall has recruited a community growing development worker to lead its Joining the Dots for Nature project.
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practical Orchard management workshops prove very popular
Forest for Cornwall is holding a valuable series of practical orchard management workshops for landowners and community organisations.
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Sustainable Food Cornwall leaders attend Oxford Real farming conference
The team from Sustainable Food Cornwall are brimming with new ideas and enthusiasm now they’re back from…
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VACANCY – community growing DEVELOPMENT WORKER, Joining the dots for nature
We are seeking to appoint a community growing development worker (part-time, fixed term contract to end March 2025) to lead the new ‘Joining the Dots for Nature’ project. It’ll help improve the soils and natural habitats of community growing schemes in or near the Cornwall National Landscape.
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Watch this short video from our Cornwall Good food summit
It’s great to see so many new faces joining us after our second #CornwallGoodFoodSummit. Now watch the video!
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YOUR FEEDBACK ON THE SECOND cORNWALL GOOD FOOD SUMMIT
We’ve been busy looking at your feedback on our second Cornwall Good Food Summit. Many of you wouldn’t change anything about the day but some wanted more time for in-depth discussion about specific issues.
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BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO TOOK PART IN OUR SECOND CORNWALL GOOD FOOD SUMMIT
We’d like to extend a massive thanks to the 100+ people involved in and working with commercial and community local food enterprises who took part in our second Cornwall Good Food Summit this week. It was such a productive and stimulating event.
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Making good food work on the farm and in the marketplace
The final part of our second Cornwall Good Food Summit at Nancarrow Farm on Monday 2 December asks everyone to explore the barriers that prevent the food system from changing for the better. What can we all do to move things on?
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how people and places are working to put good local food at the heart of what we do in cornwall
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 speaker panel.
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BUSINESSes working to PROMOTe THE CORNISH good FOOD ECONOMY
Another key session at our second Cornwall Food Summit at Nancarrow Farm next Monday 2 December focuses on the Cornish good food economy. Business entrepreneurs in three successful spheres of our local food economy will be sharing their experience and encouraging a wider conversation.
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CorNWALL HEALTH EXPERTS: how can we ENSURE EVERYONE HAS ACCESS TO affordable nutritious food?
Cornwall’s leading health experts are playing a prominent role at our second Cornwall Good Food Summit next week. The event at Nancarrow Farm near Truro on Monday 2 December begins with a focus on Food for Health.
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Summit speakers focus on food that’s good for the planet
There’s less than a week to go till our second Cornwall Good Food Summit at Nancarrow Farm, St Allen near Truro on Monday 2 December. Three of our amazing speakers on the day will be leading a discussion on Food for the Planet.
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Cornwall’s labour MPs pledge to work closely with sustainable food cornwall
Sustainable Food Cornwall had a busy day in Westminster strengthening connections with Cornwall’s new Labour MPs about the importance of everyone having equal access to healthy, affordable and planet-friendly food.
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CORNWALL GOOD FOOD SUMMIT – MONDAY 2 DECEMBER AT NANCARROW FARM
Registration is now open for the second Cornwall Good Food Summit. It’s on Monday 2 December in the inspirational setting of Nancarrow Farm near Truro.
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Veg Box Prescriptions get off to a great start
Five people with pre-diabetes and diabetes have been getting weekly veg boxes on prescription from Goonown Growers CIC, an organic market garden in St Agnes on the Cornwall north coast.
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What does sustainable farming look like? A visit to Higher Keigwin Organic Farm
Two members of the Sustainable Food Cornwall partnership recently had an opportunity to visit Higher Keigwin Organic Farm in West Penwith for a farm walk. The event was organised through Pasture for Life, which certifies and supports farmers producing 100% grass-fed meat, milk and dairy. We joined a mixed group of established farmers interested in
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Farmers’ and produce markets are booming in Cornwall
Spring is definitely in the air! Farmers and produce markets are becoming increasingly popular in Cornwall as consumers seek out local food and drink. There are now more than 30 held regularly in and around towns and villages stretching from Bude to Sennen. New ones seem to be popping up all the time and the
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Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Food Charter
The Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Food Charter is now live! Sign up to support a Cornish food system that’s more resilient and planet-friendly and where everyone has access to healthy and affordable food.
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How can Cornish growers collaborate for greater efficiency and resilience?
Cornwall has a wealth of innovative small scale agroecological producers but its remote geography can make transport and logistics difficult. Gatherings of growers in mid and west Cornwall, organised through the Organic at the Heart (OATH) project, highlighted the challenges associated with driving long distances to buy in and collect produce to compliment their offering to their
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Community food growing schemes are flourishing in Cornwall but they urgently need more land, funding and skills in order to expand and thrive, according to a new report produced by Sustainable Food Cornwall and Exeter University.
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New film highlights food links to the climate crisis – and showcases Cornish solutions
We import nearly 50% of all our food in the UK …. and yet waste one-third of it. Food waste alone, if it were a country, would be the world’s third largest source of greenhouse gas emissions after China and the United States, and the way our food is produced is a major driver of
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What is ‘Good Food for One and All’? Reflections from Cornwall’s first Food System Summit
Our vision is a food system that provides ‘Good Food for One and All’ – but what does that mean? At our first Food Summit, speakers from across the food system shared perspectives on food that’s good for people, good for the planet, good for the economy and good for our communities and society.
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Cornwall Food Systems Summit – 16th May
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