by Bridport Food Matters | Jul 20, 2021 | Blog
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...
by Bridport Food Matters | Jul 1, 2021 | Blog, News
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...
by BFM Admin | Jul 1, 2021 | Blog
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...
by Bridport Food Matters | Jun 21, 2021 | Blog, News
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...
by Bridport Food Matters | Jun 7, 2021 | Blog, Past Event Reports
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...
by Bridport Food Matters | Jun 7, 2021 | Blog
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....