One of our regular volunteers, Annie Stevens, has made a short film about Bristol's approach to food sustainability, featuring the work of The Community Farm and other organisations such as Food-Cycle and Skipchen.
Annie, a Graphic Design student at the University of the West of England, hopes the film will change people’s attitudes towards food and food-waste.The film, called Intercept, aims to inform those who are less aware of the issues we are facing in the food industry. It includes an interview with our Community Farmer, Ian Sumpter, and other local people who are “taking action against the food system in order to highlight the scale of food waste”.
It is easy to think you can't do anything about such a big problem. However, as Darren Hall says: "if you know how, you can already live quite a low impact lifestyle". Change could be as simple as buying organic carrots in your local shop or coming to visit your local community farm.
At The Community Farm we take pride in the fact that some of our vegetables are wonky. We still sell them, as they are perfectly tasty!
We manage our stock carefully to avoid waste as much as possible. On the few occasions were we do have surplus we call on food projects like FareShare or food banks to help us find the produce a new home.
We even have business customers who make soup, jam or preserves from surplus or damaged fruit and vegetables
Our thanks also to Annie Stevens for creating the video
