Harvest Brighton

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Harvest Brighton Hove

• Jess Crocker, Harvest Manager
• Brighton Hove Food Partnership

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Brighton Hove Food Partnership

• Unique structure/position
• Cookery, nutrition, school food, food growing,
  food waste, lobbying
• Membership
• Aims
• better access to affordable fresh, seasonal food
• more locally produced food
• more opportunities to learn to cook and grow food
• a better understanding of the links between food
  and health
• a better understanding of where food comes from.

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Harvest partners...
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Why local food and food growing?

• Reduce resources used to grow and transport your
  food
• Reconnect with where food comes from
• Eat seasonally and enjoy food when its at its
  best
• Support your local producers, farmers and economy
• Better choice, variety, freshness and quality
• Food access, healthier diet and exercise
• Saving money

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What we do

• Skills for growing
• Eating more local food
• Land for growing
• Community food projects
• Reducing waste
• Biodiversity affects all of this!

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Skills for growing

• Training, eg
• Dealing with pests diseases organically
• Beekeeping attracting pollinators
• Seed saving
• Work placements / volunteers
• Events and website resources

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Eating local food

• Website resources and recipes
• Cookery training and events
• Foraging appreciating wild plants

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Land for growing

• Allotments and learner plots
• Land for growing projects
• Grow Your Neighbours Own
• Preston Park garden
• Organic allotments etc...

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Community food projects

• Small grants scheme
• Advice to growing projects and schools
• Setting an example on biodiversity...

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Reducing waste

• Scrumping project
• Composting / wormery training
• Community composting
• Food waste recipes and workshops
• Reducing landfills, creating new habitats...

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In summary...

• 8 out of 10 European crops depend on pollination
  by insects but honeybee populations have declined
  by 54 since 1985
• Insects contribute more than 12 billion to crop
  production in Europe (400 million just in the
  UK)
• We currently use less than 3 percent of the
  250,000 plant varieties available for agriculture
• Avoiding monocultures and pesticides and creating
  new habitats with a wider range of plants is
  vital if we are going to counteract these
  problems...

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Get involved...

• Give us your ideas for what we can do to promote
  the link between food and biodiversity!
• Join us at a training course or event
• Volunteer at a community food project
• Sign-up to the mailing list or go to the website
  for more information...

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Find out morewww.harvest-bh.org.uk

• 01273 431 700
• harvest_at_bhfood.org.uk