News
New! Affordable, easy, healthy recipes…
Celebrity chef Tom Kerridge and affordable food campaigner Marcus Rashford have teamed up to create a range of recipes which are tasty, affordable, healthy and easy to cook. This even includes an omelette made in an electric kettle! You can access the recipes via...
Enter the Melplash Agricultural Society’s Garden and Allotment competition
Winning allotment 2019: Donald Joliffe The Society's Garden & Allotment competition is recognised as the most prestigious amateur garden competition in the area. It is open to everyone who lives within a 12 mile radius of Melplash Village Church. Gardens and...
Bridport Food and Drink Lockdown Hero 2021 winners
The Bridport Local Food Group says CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS! The service that you have given to the community during lockdown has been exceptional and made life for many much more bearable. We received a fantastic number of nominations and all deserve the...
Adventures in Affordable Eating
The Food Stall at St Swithuns is still going strong, some 8 months after it was started! The need seems to be there and has grown, so we have tried to vary the stock by using donation money to buy in certain items over and above the food donations we get each week....
Easter activities at the Garden Glut and Surplus Food stall
With the Easter Holidays upon us we are expecting the stall to be busy so have put together a number of new initiatives that we would like to share with you. The stall will be open from 9.30am* to 1 pm on Thursdays in St Swithun's Church car park, North Allington....
Bridport Food Festival to run 13-25 June 2021
The Bridport Local Food Group is extremely pleased to announce that the Bridport Food Festival will be happening this year despite the format having to change to allow for managing social distancing rules. The usual week-long event will be extended. It will run...
How Bridport Garden Glut has grown through the pandemic
Bridport Nub News featured the St Swithun's glut stall .... From what started as an initiative to reduce waste to a weekly offering involving many local groups and businesses, the Bridport Garden Glut stall has grown throughout the coronavirus pandemic. We caught up...
Bridport Local Food Group
New food and drink 'Lockdown Hero' awards The Bridport Local Food Group’s new Food & Drink ‘Lockdown Hero’ awards has been devised to recognise and say a BIG 'THANK YOU' to the local food & drink businesses: cafes, restaurants, pubs, butchers, bakers,...
Events
Bridport Food Matters at the Food Festival market, Saturday 19th June, 9am – 5pm.
An information hub on Millennium Green about Bridport’s many food-related initiatives, and a place to talk about access to healthy food, food security, the local economy and climate change. We can share ideas about what is already going on and what more we can do...
What is happening to our food: Robert Golden in conversation with Helen Woodstock, Candida Blaker & Philip Colfox: Thursday 17 June, 19:00 – 20.30
Image: Robert Golden pics. This Good Earth is Robert Golden’s second West Dorset documentary, looking at what is happening to our food, locally, and globally. It follows the success of the first documentary made about the region 14 years ago. SAVOURING...
Bridport Farmers’ Market
Open from 9am-1pm: commencing on Saturday 8 May and then every 3rd Saturday of the month. Barrack Street, Bridport Read more on the Visit Dorset website.
Vegan Market
Commencing on 18 April and then every 2nd Saturday of the month.
Event Reports
Read the report on our Open Gardens event held on 19 May 2021.
See here for our Bridport Local Food Hub discussion document.
Online roundtable discussion for community organisations and consumers, 23 September 2020, see report here.
Online discussion with retailers and local producers, 20 October 2020, see report here.
Past Events
The Future of Food and Farming, 28th April 20.00hrs.
Are you concerned about biodiversity, food and animal welfare standards, soil fertility and climate emergency? Join a free-ranging Q&A with Robert Golden, Director of the documentary This Good Earth; Liz Bowles, of The Soil Association; Philip Colfox (owner...
Immunity booster packs at St Swithun’s community food stall – 1 April from 9.30am
Jessie is a student at Thomas Hardye School who has been doing a project on immunity. Next Thursday, 1st April she is returning to the Glut Stall at St Swithun's with her Food Immunity Project: Bridport Boosters pack. The pack contains oranges and lemons, ginger and...
Open Veg and Fruit Gardens Wednesday May 19 2021, 2-5pm
Photo: Edible Gardens, St Mary's Primary School Seeding our Future and Transition Town Bridport will be hosting ‘Open Veg and Fruit Gardens’ on Wednesday 19 May between 2- 5 pm, to exchange information about what some food growers in Bridport are doing to adapt to...
Digging deeper into local food
Online briefing and discussion: Tuesday January 12, 7.00-8.30pm Organised and hosted by Transition Town Bridport and Seeding our Future Our food supply is more fragile than it appears. Some 40% of our food comes from abroad, and depends on good harvests, stable...
Why local food matters for Bridport
Bridport has a reputation as a foodie centre, but how solid is our local food security? Several local organisations believe we need to grow and buy more of our produce locally: you can find out more at their stall on Barrack Street in the December 12 Farmers Market....
Growing through Climate Change: local responses to food security
How we can strengthen the food economy around Bridport Online seminar and discussion: Wednesday 10 June: 7.00-8.30 pm Hosted by Transition Town Bridport, Seeding our Future and Bridport Local Food Group We have a big opportunity to make Bridport’s food economy less...