Blogs
Down on the Allotments: tomato blight, snail-resistant produce, sea buckthorn, new crop experiments, Bird’s-Foot Trefoil, and a new outdoor gatherings space.
The humid and warm, but not really sunny, summer has led to blight on many tomatoes. To reduce the chances of this, it helps to ensure space between the plants, remove lower eaves and water the soil (avoiding the leaves) in the morning rather than evening, to help...
Simple steps: practical local responses to climate change
Simple steps: practical local responses to climate change It’s easy to feel that climate change is such a large problem that our actions won’t count. In fact, facing this crisis depends on actions we can all take, as well as responses from governments. Here are...
UK Food Strategy: the Dimbleby Report offers a clear, positive direction
Henry Dimbleby’s new report offers an encouraging, coherent set of recommendations which face up to many of the tangles and tensions in UK strategy for food, land use, and related health issues. It’s 140 pages long, but clearly laid out, and worth the effort to...
‘Love Food – Love Bridport’ market a great success
Held this year for the first time on the Millennium Green in Bridport, the Love Food – Love Bridport Market replaced the popular annual Bridport Food Festival event at Asker Meadows which was not possible to run with the current Covid-19 restrictions. The free...
This is why we need more local food production: food shortages could be imminent…
Many experts are forecasting a much-increased risk of food shortages in the UK, both in the near term and for many years ahead. The immediate reasons for this arise from covid and Brexit, the major ongoing reason is climate change. Many agricultural and horticultural...
Meet the producer: Nick Phillips, Chris Gasson tell us about Chideock Champignons, their gourmet mushroom farm in Chideock:
We are Chideock Champignons, a gourmet mushroom farm in Chideock, West Dorset. We call ourselves ‘gourmet’ because ‘alternative’ would sound weird and unpalatable, given the fact we’re talking about mushrooms. We grow oyster mushrooms, shiitakes, lions mane, wine caps...
Bridport Food Matters stall at Food Festival: a big success!
The Bridport Food Matters stall at the Festival Food Market on June 19 attracted a lot of visitors, and prompted many useful conversations. A couple of hundred people took away BFM leaflets with information about the new website, and many of them also signed up for...
Open Veg Gardens: a successful adventure!
Photo: Robert Golden On May 19, Bridport Food Matters ran an Open Veg and Fruit Gardens Afternoon. This was our first in-person event for over a year, and worked out well. Six locations had kindly volunteered as hosts, and we had about forty visitors. We had thanks...
Bridport’s flourishing food scene: 2030
1. Introduction During the pandemic, many of us have hoped to create a better future ahead, not just a return to the past. We need to create a positive vision together, and this thinks piece aims to help our Bridport community to evolve this for our food economy....