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Waltham Forest Local Food Hub In March 2006, a meeting in Walthamstow brought together local groups and organisations to explore issues around accessing and producing local food in Waltham Forest. The meeting was hosted by three local organisations (OrganicLea, Forest Recycling Project and Hornbeam Environmental Centre) with an interest in improving access to local food in terms of growing, consuming and education. The meeting demonstrated that there is already a lot of local activity, enthusiasm and interest in food issues, and the three organisations met subsequently to follow up on the ideas generated and find ways forward. The various ideas coalesced into a proposal for a 'local food hub': a place where local people can get quality local organic produce, be informed about food nutrition and food growing, receive training, run a café and be involved in micro-processing enterprises. To get this off the ground, the groups decided to start running a weekly organic market stall, which has been running successfully since September 2006, and build up from there.
For more background detail download reports from some of the planning sessions:
Workshop on accessing local food - March 2006
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