Welcome
This new website aims to provide you with information on all aspects of food matters in Bridport: just scan through the sections below and follow the links.
Bridport has a vibrant food economy, with brilliant producers, retailers and caterers, but there’s a lot we can do to increase food security locally, and reduce the impacts of climate change, shrinking budgets and more. Please share your views via the Forum, and sign up for our newsletters.
Suppliers Directory
This section includes a listing of local Food and Drink Businesses offering Eat In, Collection and Delivery Services, and the 2019 Bridport Food Festival Food and Drink Guide, both compiled by Bridport Local Food Group.
Food Access Help
The pandemic means that more households find it hard to afford the food they need. Bridport Local Food Group has published a list of the local food access initiatives, including when they are open and how to contact them.
Climate Adaptation
There are many ways we can improve local food security in the face of potential supply shortages and price rises arising from climate change. On this website you’ll find suggestions/ useful information for these groups:
Overview: more on the big picture, and ideas for a Local Food Hub.
Consumers: benefits of local buying and reviewing your diet.
Home Growers: crops and growing methods to adapt to new weather patterns.
Producers: Climate adaptation for horticultural and arable producers.
New Producers: assisting access to land, seed capital and markets.
Local Resources
There’s lots of information on this site to help you find relevant local organisations, things you can get involved in, help and advice, and information. Here are the main sections:
Community Initiatives: relevant to some aspect of local food matters.
Growing You Own: local schemes that you can participate in.
Healthy Eating: websites, info and recipes on healthy, affordable food using local produce where possible.
Young people: activities with schools and for young people.
Support Groups: for a range of issues and needs.
News & Events
News stories and forthcoming events relating to the local food scene. You can also read event reports, sign up to our newsletter and find links to previous newsletters.
Blogs and pics
Plenty of stories and images from our dynamic local food scene!
About
This website is a joint initiative by Bridport Local Food Group and Seeding our Future: to learn more about these organisations and what they do, click here.
Newsletters, Links
Find links for further information on topics like national food matters.
Feature Blog/News Item
Bridport food security: hopes for 2021It’s just over a year since Seeding our Future started …
Recent Blogs
Launch of Great Big Green Week: Bridport’s Proclamation by our Mayor, Ian Bark
Image by Robert Golden COP 26 must be a success. Decarbonising the world must start now with emphatic steps. This realisation is what unifies us here today. We want our town, our county, and our country to hear: the road to zero must be embraced and acted upon by...
Edible Gardens projects – Bridport Primary and St Mary’s Primary
The Edible and Forest Garden (EG2) at Bridport Primary School is developing slowly thanks to the volunteers. We could certainly do with more help as and when people have time. We look forward to the children, school and the community getting more involved at the start...
Starkest climate warning yet: Six food and farming takeaways from the latest IPCC report
Climate change is no longer a future threat or impacting people in faraway places, and food is playing an ever-greater role in the crisis. To read more, follow the blog by Sustain https://www.sustainweb.org/blogs/aug21-ippc-6th-report/
Get In Touch
Get in touch if you would like to suggest an addition (or alteration) to any of the listings on this website, or if you would like to Get Involved with matters relating to Bridport Food. For example, you could become an Allotment Ambassador, support the food glut and surplus stall projects, or volunteer with the Community Initiatives and Bridport Food Matters partners.
To keep informed, please subscribe to the Bridport Food Matters occasional E-News.