Food Action
Mission statement
Action 21 aims to promote the production and consumption of seasonal, local and organic food.
The staff, volunteers and directors involved in food are working towards a Leamington and Warwick Food Partnership which will promote practical action within the community, fostering pragmatic links that will stimulate and encourage the local and organic food production sectors in and around Warwick and Leamington.
Our vision
We want to increase production of seasonal, local and organic food by working with practical growing projects of our own and offering support to relevant community projects with our staff and volunteers. Practically we will:
- promote food co-ops that use local, seasonal and organic food - now delivered via www.swlocalfood.org
- support allotment groups when asked, seek to link community groups with allotment spaces and seek to work with the district, town and parish councils to establish new allotment space in the towns and district (see Dobson Lane Community Allotment);
- develop a project to share offered garden space for communal vegetable production, seeking to involve housing associations like Orbit where relevant;
- develop a scheme to share excess garden and street fruit production which might be expanded to a community orchard site on a local allotment;
- work with community centres to develop lunch clubs, growing plots and demonstration gardens and promote local food events that encourage local production (pumpkin days etc.) (see Community Food Project);
- work with schools to encourage growing and produce cooking projects;
- work to have a stall at the farmers market available for community and allotment holders to sell produce to the public;
- encourage the County and District Councils to devote one bed in each town park to vegetables as a demonstration of the transition town principle;
- engage with Garden Organic to offer training to community groups for food production;
- develop a fish production faculty on an allotment or local farm site;
- promote educational activities aimed at raising awareness about the advantages of seasonal, local and organic food and encouraging food networking and links.
Join us
Do you have a passion for growing food in an environmentall friendly way? Or do you just like pottering around and want to find out more? We have volunteer opportunities in our Sustainability Centre Garden and Really-Useful Garden.
For information on getting involved, please e-mail Sam Elvyhart or phone on 01926 339077. Alternatively, check out our latest volunteering opportunities.
Food events
Action 21 helps to fundThe Food Group takes part in and organises several events each year organised by South Warwickshire Local Food. Lately there has been a winter food day at Lillington Youth Centre during the February half term, a stall selling vegetable plants at the Peace Festival and two pumpkin days during the autumn half term at Bath Place Community Venture and Lillington. Check out the diary for up-to-date events, or email us to find out what's going on near you.
More information
Our Online Directory has lots of information and links relating to food.