Having a weekly veg box has compelled me to get creative to use up what I have to avoid wasting food. Making soup is an easy way to bring the amount of produce to more manageable proportions. Baking is the other. Quite many vegetables can be smuggled into cakes to use them up, for instance, carrot, courgette, parsnip, beetroot and butternut squash. If I start to get seriously … [Read more...]
Instruments of Torture
"What doesn't kill us, maims and cripples us" as one of my friends once jokingly said. Many a true word is spoken in jest. My standard walking route is the one I copied by following a nimble looking chap with a lively dog who entered the local open space at exactly the same time as I did and who, annoyingly, took the same direction as I planned to. So I followed him at a … [Read more...]
MADE IN GREENWICH
Our shop Made in Greenwich remains closed for the time being, but we are seeing increased traffic to our web shop www.madeingreenwich.shop where you can buy the work of our 50 local makers on-line and read about them on our blog. We are constantly reviewing plans for re-opening and we will let you know how and when it happens! MARKET BUNDLES You may not know this, but the … [Read more...]
FOOD SUPPORT IN LEWISHAM
From mid-March, GCDA was asked to work with Lewisham Local around the food emergency response in the borough as part of our Be Inspired programme, with a particular focus on facilitating surplus supply coordination for community projects. A Lewisham surplus food hub is now operating twice-weekly (Tuesdays and Friday) at The Barn, Phoenix, Green Man. Our GCDA colleague Laura … [Read more...]
GCDA – IN THE NEWS
GCDA’s community activities since the Covid-19 outbreak have seen it receive unprecedented attention from the press, with coverage on BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme and You & Yours, BBC London’s Robert Elms Show, Southwark News, Masthead, Greenwich Weekender, onlondon.co.uk and ShadoMag to name but a few. Claire also received a personal letter from Sir Kenneth Olisa, the … [Read more...]