Food Co-ops Sourcing Locally

The Food Co-ops & Buying Groups project presents it’s 2nd East Anglian conference: GROWING, SELLING, BUYING: IN YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY Linking up food co-ops, buying groups, allotment plotholders, community gardens, urban scrumpers, & small producers February 6th 10:00 - 4:00 at Sproughton Tithe Barn near Ipswich, Suffolk www.sproughtontithebarn.org.uk Presentations & Workshops from: Urban Harvest London & Leeds - Harvesting & distributing fruit that would otherwise be left to rot Maria Iacovou of Wivenhoe buying group - Troubleshooting & diversifying session for wholefood buying groups Eloise Dey - London’s Capital Growth project supporting community gardens to sell surplus Meet the Local Foods Suffolk team Rebecca Tully - of Organiclea Workers Co-op's Cropshare stall selling allotmentholders’ surplus in Walthamstow Barbara Vidion of Metfield Chicken Co-op, & Suffolk’s Pig Clubs + Networking with local groups and Action Planning to help set up or improve your community food project + Delicious lunch of local seasonal produce This is a FREE event but booking is essential Contact: 07971 863 586 More information and a toolkit showing how to get started is available at www.foodcoops.org