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Devon Food Partnership has achieved membership of the Sustainable Food Places network to support their efforts to make local, healthy and sustainable food available to all. Continue reading →

Devon businesses – want to see your business grow? Made in Devon is a major new buy-local business support scheme from Devon County Council. Growers, suppliers and producers in the agricultural industry are one of the first sectors this scheme … Continue reading →

Guardians of Grub is a national initiative which helps hospitality and catering businesses to reduce food waste by enabling them to identify where and how they are wasting food so they can target solutions. As well as the environmental impact, … Continue reading →

Devon Food Partnership Task Group – Join Us! Wednesday 10th November, 10-11.30am virtually on MS Teams Please join us for the Devon Food Partnership’s first task group, looking at how we can improve uptake of Healthy Start across Devon, Torbay … Continue reading →

On Wednesday 29th September, Sustainable Food Places Network (SFP) members are joining a food and climate day of celebration and action in the run up to COP26. COP26 is just around the corner, when a lot of attention will be … Continue reading →

A new joint initiative with partners from across the South West has been established to fund and deliver research to better understand the South West’s food supply chains. This research could provide information on how supply chains could be shortened … Continue reading →

Devon County Council has received funding from Defra to help update farmers and landowners in Devon and Somerset on upcoming changes to funding support. Supporting the agricultural sector is essential to a diverse and prosperous food economy and the Devon … Continue reading →

Two and a half thousand families in Devon can sign up to receive a seasonal fruit and vegetable box this Autumn as part of a Devon County Council initiative to help raise awareness of the government’s Healthy Start scheme, which … Continue reading →

The Soil Association has announced that not-for-profit organisations in the UK can apply for small grants of £150 to take part in Cook and Share Month, running from World Food Day 16th October – 16 November 2021. The Devon Food … Continue reading →

Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards are holding a webinar to promote wellbeing in the farming community on Thursday 22 July. Continue reading →