HFA Newsletter

Here is a summary of the latest newsletter from Herefordshire Food Alliance: 

A warm hello from the Herefordshire Food Alliance.

We hope you’re enjoying the summer. Herefordshire farmers are currently busy combine harvesting, and you might be busy keeping a vegetable patch watered! But we hope you’ve found time to embrace summer food: sun-ripened fruit, eating outdoors and slowing down to savour seasonal, locally grown produce. At the same time, the recent heatwaves and ongoing lack of rain are stark reminders of the growing challenges climate change presents for food production, making resilient local food systems more important than ever.

See below for reports on our school trips to Lower Blakemere Farm, a plea to support Wicton Farn and our first Feast in the Farm event. Plans are already underway for the next Feast – with a wheat, flour and bread theme—watch this space.

Behind the scenes, we’ve also been working with partners across the Marches bio-region developing an exciting collaborative project. This has meant temporarily reducing the time available for Food Alliance coordination (including missing June’s newsletter) while we focus on laying the foundations. We believe the long-term benefits will be well worth it, and we look forward to sharing more information when we can.

Looking ahead to September, we will be holding a working group session to review and develop ideas for Herefordshire Food Alliance governance. Please get in touch if you’d like to be involved or have thoughts to contribute.

Whatever the rest of your summer holds, we hope you enjoy the tastes of the season, with the chance to appreciate the people, places and landscapes that make Herefordshire’s food so special.

Farm Link – School trips to Lower Blakemere Farm