FoodTrade
At Sustaination we believe that sustainable trading is not just desirable, it's completely necessary if we are to thrive.
We work to make local, resilient trade easy and efficient. Together can help ensure resources are efficiently traded, resources well used, and livelihoods protected.
Helping local businesses understand and respond to local demand for a better food system.
We know we're all in this together, so we help everyone work together to make it better.
We help you find new trade partners, re-localise, and access real-time opportunities. It’s a professional network serving every type of food business, from farm to fork, at every scale and turnover.
There’s a great deal nearer than you think.
Find our what's on offer and sign up to the announcements list at www.foodtrade.com
Every once in a while the number of open tabs in my browser gets to a crazy level. Every day there’s a hundred more relevant and interesting food stories to pay attention to, and on an average day I can read maybe 8.
Here are some of the most interesting and relevant (including a few reposts since it’s easy to forget about some of the great resources out there).
Hi Catherine
I’m sure you know what I’d like to say since I suspect you’ve received thousands of emails like this one.
I run a food trade company helping small food businesses, from farm to fork, develop strong resilient supply chains to develop local economies, provide livelihoods, and secure a nutrient-rich food future. As you can imagine, this vote is important to us.
I suspect from your voting history we’re of one mind on this, but can you please can you reassure me that you’re not planning to legislate against the free sale and exchange of traditional and niche adapted seeds – the very same ones we need so desperately to grow to feed each other in our climate-changed resource-depleted future?
Ed
Did you know 96% of Britain’s food and drink makers employ fewer than 250 people?
“One of Europe’s top 100 hottest startups” — Wired 09/12http://s.coop/bbcgenerationfood
http://s.coop/fastcompanycoexist
First there were managed allotments, and now there are groups who will come to YOUR garden and turn it into a productive growing space.
This is simply epic for urban food production: the people are there, the space is there, and the distance between managed plots is small (imagine you’re the grower offering this service and trying to keep your costs low).
Here’s the Resilient Communities write up of this phenomenon:
“In backyard farming, your not only selling the veggies, your selling the experience.” Charlie Radoslovich of Rad Urban Farmers
In the US alone, there’s 50,000 square miles of lawns. That’s obviously a terrible waste of a very valuable resource. But it gets worse, we spend over $30 billion a year landscaping those yards. We’re not only wasting it, we’re paying to waste it. Wow!
One big reason a home’s yard is so valuable is due to its proximity. It’s a growing space next to where you live. A place you see every day. An accessible space.
That integration gives you a measure of independence, an appreciation of what good food consists of (given how artificial and engineered so much of what we eat today is, that’s a VERY good thing), and a way to impart that experience to your kids.
This is like a CSA, but here the farmer comes to you. He/she converts your yard into a high performance garden and teaches you how to garden it successfully.
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