Blogs
Bridport Plant Swap: A collaboration brimming with possibilities
Bridport Community Shed20th May 10-12Plant swaps are informal gatherings bringing local gardeners together to share the bounty of their spring sowings.The 20th May this year, sees the return of a plant swap that has previously been held in Bucky Doo and this year...
Project profile: Bridport Food Matters
Three years on, what has worked, and what hasn't In 2020, and before that, many experts on food security and climate change were warning of imminent problems, and sadly they were right. Covid has added to the challenges of extreme weather, but the UK has had it...
We Dig No-Dig-ity!
Following a successful funding bid we will be setting up the ’We Dig No Dig' project to support the development of ‘Incredible Edible’ style veg beds around Bridport growing food free to harvest. This BFM project is devised and run by Rachel Millson and Julie Penfold,...
Allotment Ambassadors
Being an Allotment Ambassador means being prepared to experiment with climate adaptive growing methods and produce, and to share your experience with and inspire others. You might be prolonging the growing season, protecting the soil from extreme weather events or...
Meet Community Food Educator Sarah Wilberforce
Find out what inspired Sarah to become involved in food, which has led her to participate in several of the important community-driven local food projects in Bridport - from the primary schools, to the glut stall and the food festival, with her passion for education,...
Bridport Climate Forums Report
Bridport Climate Forum Event Report In-person forum Tuesday 23 November and online forum Wednesday 24 November 2021 1. Background Over 40 representatives of organisations in Bridport attended two Bridport Climate Forums, held in-person and online in November...
Meet community food educator, Rachel Millson
What was your journey to growing and being involved in food? The spark of a desire to grow my own food was ignited by the inexplicable excitement of walks around the allotments next to the infant school I attended. The school was very nature-based in those days. Also,...
Meet Gardening Teacher ‘Tia’ Perrella, who works on the Edible Gardens projects at Primary Schools:
Candida spoke with Tia about what drew her to teaching organic gardening to young people in Primary schools in Bridport, what gardens can teach us, and her hopes for the town. How did your name become shortened to Tia? My full name is Mariteresa Perrella, usually...
How Bridport is moving forward with climate change responses
How Bridport is moving forward with climate change responses Positive outcomes from September 21 meeting As part of Great Big Green Week, on September 21 a well-attended open meeting was held to explore positive, practical local responses to the climate crisis. It was...
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...