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Pick Your Own farms in the UK
For listings of Welsh Farmers' Markets see FARMA Cymru here
Action for Market Towns
Action for Market Towns is a membership organisation that exists to promote the vitality and viability of small towns, helping them to tackle the challenges they face and providing a national focus for critical issues.
www.towns.org.uk
Allotments Regeneration initiative
The Allotments Regeneration initiative (ARI) is a partnership which aims to stimulate more people to get growing on urban allotments, both as individuals plot holders and through community projects.
www.farmgarden.org.uk/ari
BBCi Nature Environment
Useful site encouraging people to consider the effect their shopping choices make on the environment.
www.bbc.co.uk/nature/environment/greenliving/food.shtml
Co-operatives UK
As the apex body for co-operative enterprise in the UK, Co-operativesUK promotes co-operative and mutual solutions, and works in partnership with its members to build a strong and successful co-operative movement.
www.cooperatives-uk.coop
Council for the Protection of Rural England
CPRE exists to promote the beauty, tranquillity and diversity of rural England by encouragaing the sustainable use of land and other natural resources in town and country.
www.cpre.org.uk
Country Land & Business Association
The CLA is at the core of the rural economy. The 50,000 members of the CLA have an interest in countryside issues, some with large farms and estates, others with smaller amounts of land. What they have in common is a commitment to rural life.
www.cla.org.uk
Country Smallholding
The well- known magazine , now with lots of useful articles online.
www.countrysmallholding.com
DEFRA
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is often seen as being simply about farming and supporting farmers. It still has that traditional role but its concerns go far wider: our highly complex food chain involves not only production and processing, but issues such as food safety, the environmental impact of farming, and the wider contexts of the UK economy and the European Union.
www.defra.gov.uk
Eco-logic books
Eco-logic books are a small, ethically run company that specialise in
publishing and distributing books that promote practical solutions to
environmental problems. They stock many books on food and farming related issues and have published and distribute several books on Farmers' Markets including 'The New Farmers' Market'.
www.eco-logicbooks.com
ENDS Environmental Consultancy Directory
A free online database of environmental consultants.
www.endsdirectory.com
Farm
Farm is a new campaigning voice, fighting for a viable future for independent and family farms.
Farm is run by working farmers, backed by a professional team. Their aim is ensure that farmers' voices are heard by the public, politicians, business and the media.
www.farm.org.uk
Farming and Rural Conservation Agency
FRCA is a new Executive Agency of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) and the Welsh Office. FRCA is made up of some 480 staff, most of whom are professionally qualified. They are spread across local offices throughout England and Wales.
www.maff.gov.uk/aboutmaf/agency/FRCA/FRCA.htm
Farmhouse Breakfast
Farmhouse Breakfast Week runs from 19th to 25th January 2003 with the "reasons to be cheerful theme". The campaign i sorganised by HGCA and aims to highlight the links between the countryside, the manufacturing process and the cereal food on our plates, spotlighting all those involved in the food chain.
So don't forget to enjoy a delicious breakfast and give yourself a reason to feel cheerful!
www.hgca.com/breakfast
Food Standards Agency
The Food Standards Agency is charged with protecting consumer interests in relation to food safety and standards.
www.foodstandards.gov.uk
Food Future Food & Biotechnology
The Food and Drink Federation foodfuture programme aims to improve public understanding of genetic modification.
www.foodfuture.org.uk
Food Futures
Calderdale and Kirklees Food Futures was launched in October 1999 as one of eleven schemes promoted by the Soil Association to strengthen the local food sector in the UK .
www.foodfutures.org.uk
Food News
If you love good food and drink and have an email address you can get Foodie News free every month. Launched in 2003 Foodie News delivers views and facts about food and drink producers and suppliers, shops, restaurants, events, publications and special offers for lovers of good food.
www.foodienews.net/ The Foody Uk and Ireland
The Foody is one of very few websites that specialises in the food and cookery from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, which also aims to support and promote local food producers. With hundreds of recipes including many classic regional dishes and historical ones from Roman Britain and Medieval times. There is also an events diary for all food related events within the areas covered.
Click here ofr more details
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth is one of the leading environmental pressure groups in the UK. It is a charity which commissions detailed research and provides extensive information and educational materials.
www.foe.co.uk
Friends of the Earth Cymru
Bi-lingual site for Friends of the Earth in Wales
www.foecymru.co.uk
Groundwork
Groundwork is a leading environmental regeneration charity. From small community schemes to major regional and national programmes, our network of over 40 local Trusts works in partnership with local people, local authorities and business to promote economic and social regeneration by improvements to the local environment.
www.groundwork.org.uk
Gustoguide
Gustoguide is a non-profit making information giving site listing places to buy organic food.
www.gustoguide.co.uk
International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC)
Raising awareness about the availaility of local food, ISEC have been running a local food roadshow throughout the UK, providing a critique of the globalisation of the food economy and compelling arguments for the need to move towards shortening the distance between food and consumer. Local Food Roadshow.
www.isec.org.uk
LEAF
Linking environment and farming
www.localfoodworks.org
Lincolnshire Charter for Agriculture and Horticulture
Forging links between the farming community and local authorities is at the heart of the Implementation Plan for the Charter for Agriculture and Horticulture. The Charter establishes new, exciting partnerships between farming, food and local government and the Plan focuses on economic development opportunities and the future sustainability of farming and horticulture in the County.
www.lincsfoodandfarming.org.uk
Local Food Works
Local Food Works exists to foster sustainable local food systems through the development of local food networks.
Local food case studies, reports, news...and more. Contact them with details of your local food news.
www.localfoodworks.org
National Association of British Market Authorities (NABMA)
Promotes the socio-economic and touristic values of traditional retail, wholesale, livestock and associated market activities and actively encourages their inclusiveness, development and promotion at local, national and international levels and through partnerships.
www.nabma.com
National Federation of Women's Institutes
The NFWI is the largest charity for women with a quarter of a million members and 8,000 local WIs round the country. Through our close community ties and wide-ranging activities the WI plays a unique role in enabling women to turn their interests into achievements and their concerns into campaigns.
www.womens-institute.org.uk
National Trust
The National Trust was founded in 1895 by three Victorian philanthropists - Miss Octavia Hill, Sir Robert Hunter and Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley. Concerned about the impact of uncontrolled development and industrialisation, they set up the Trust to act as a guardian for the nation in the acquisition and protection of threatened coastline countryside and buildings.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
New World Publishing
Books and online resources for small farm marketing and farmers' markets, as well as links to a wide variety of small farm, sustainable resources. American publishing company, so some information not relevant but with some useful cross-over information.
www.nwpub.net
Pa�s Alps
The French association active in promoting small-scale quality farming by participating in or organising markets, fairs and open days and particpating in the National Federation of peasant producers (FNAPF)
http://paisalp.free.fr
Plan organic
For a sustainable future
http://www.planorganic.com/
RABItes!
Interested in promoting the best of British produce and helping farming’s oldest charity at the same time? Then read on.
RABites is a web-based recipe page that starts in September, devised by the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution, the national charity that gives out over £3 million a year to struggling farmers.
Each month a different region will be in the spotlight to celebrate the quality and diversity of seasonal local produce. Visitors to the site will be set a challenge to produce a dish using featured ingredients. The recipes can be well-known favourites, long forgotten local specialities, or a new slant on a traditional theme. Ultimately, the recipes will be published in a book to raise funds for the charity.
www.rabites.org.uk
Rivercottage
Riovercottage.net is a website about food, where it comes from and why that matters.
www.rivercottage.net
Royal Agricultural Society of England
The RASE is an independent charity devoted to the advancement of British agriculture through good science and the caring stewardship of land, animals and people.
www.rase.org.uk
RuralHeart
A searchable directory of around 250,000 businesses based in and around the countryside throughout the UK, also provides a service of news on rural issues and the opportunity for local community groups to publicise their activities
www.RuralHeart.com
South West Food and Drink
is the umbrella trade organisation for the Food and Drink Industry in the South West of England and is supported by the South West of England Regional Developemnt Agency.
www.southwestfoodanddrink.com
Stay on a Farm
The Farm Holiday Bureau provides a infomation on a network of over 1000 farms providing both bed & breakfast and self catering accommodation throughout the UK, in quality accommodation with value for money prices.
www.farm-holidays.co.uk
The Dairy Council
The Dairy Council, founded in 1920, is the co-ordinating body for the dairy industry's generic information and promotion activities in Great Britain. It is funded by dairy farmers via the Milk Development Council and by milk processors and manufacturers via The Dairy Industry Federation.
The Dairy Council promotes the positive image, its products and the industry as a whole in the eyes of consumer and key influencers.
www.milk.co.uk
The Ecologist
Founded in 1970, The Ecologist is the world's most widely-read environmental magazine. Published on four continents, the magazine is read by over 100,000 people in 150 countries. A key player in major environmental campaigns against GM crops, rainforest destruction, climate change and the devastating impact of globalisation, The Ecologist has helped set environmental and green political agendas across the world.
www.theecologist.org
Real Produce
Linking the producer and the consumer direct
www.realproduce.co.uk
Sustain
Sustain advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, promote equity and enrich society and culture. We represent around 100 national public interest organisations working at international, national, regional and local level.
www.sustainweb.org
UK & London Organic Guides
The UK Organic Guide is dedicated to bringing you all the information you need to shop around for great organic food, wine, clothes and other products.
The UK Organic Guide will also keep you up to date on food news, whether it's the opening of a new farmers' market or campaigns by food groups
www.infolondon.ukf.net/organic
Village Key
For news, village and family searches, discussion forums, polls and surveys - lots of information, including details of Farmers' Markets in UK villages. Updated frequently
www.villagekey.com
WI Markets
WI Market stalls are found in hundreds of venues every week and offer a wide range of crafts, home grown and home made produce from the kitchen, garden and dairy. Held in over 500 towns and villages throughout England, Wales and the Islands, they attract regular customers and provide a friendly venue for both seller and buyer alike.
www.wimarkets.co.uk
Women's Food & Farming Union
WFU promotes the best in British farm produce and tackles the issues that concern us all as consumers. Through a national network of members who act as a link between producers and consumers, we seek to help consumers understand food production and farming in Britain.
www.wfu.org.uk
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