Food and Food Production

  • Incredible Edible Ludlow – Part of Ludlow 21 and a national movement.  Planting edibles in public spaces for everyone to share, working with local community groups and running seed and plant swaps to help get everyone growing.
  • Local to Ludlow – Promotes food and drink produced within 30 miles of Ludlow, aiming to reduce the environmental cost of food production and to support the local food economy.
  • Slow Food Marches – a volunteer run ‘not-for-profit’ group whose aims are shared with thousands of like minded people all around the world through the international Slow Food movement (founded in Italy in 1989).
  • Shropshire Good Food Partnership – bringing people together to create a local food system which is good for people, place and the planet.
  • Grow Cook Learn – connecting people to the food, history and landscape of the Shropshire Hills.
  • The Soil Association – The Soil Association is the UK’s leading campaigning and certification organisation for organic food and farming. It was founded in 1946 by a group of farmers, scientists and nutritionists who observed a direct connection between farming practice and plant, animal, human and environmental health.
  • Garden Organic – Garden Organic is the working name of the Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA). They are a registered charity, and Europe’s largest organic membership organisation. They are dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food.
  • WWOOF – Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms, UK (WWOOF UK®) is part of a worldwide effort to link visitors with organic farmers, promote an educational exchange, and build a global community conscious of ecological farming practices.  Visitors, or ‘WWOOFers’, spend about half of each day helping out on a farm, learn about organic agriculture, and share in daily life with the host.
  • Wholesome Food Association – The Wholesome Food Association local symbol scheme is a low-cost, grassroots alternative to organic certification for people in the UK who are growing or producing food for sale in their local region.
  • Big Barn– Search for local produce by postcode.