How Lancaster and Morecambe residents can shop local...with a twist

Kiki Kornblatt Callihan, FoodFutures communications coordinator, talks about how working collaboratively allows us to support local businesses and raise funding for a food hub’s work.
Growing with Grace grows organically on the border of north Lancashire, offering veg boxes delivered to your door.Growing with Grace grows organically on the border of north Lancashire, offering veg boxes delivered to your door.
Growing with Grace grows organically on the border of north Lancashire, offering veg boxes delivered to your door.

Normally, the FoodFutures network would be preparing for its Midwinter market, coinciding with the solstice, to celebrate locally produced food and drinks.

As Covid has altered the landscape for event planning, we decided to create a hamper that both highlighted local specialities and allowed us to support a local endeavor.

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Neither foodbank, nor grocery store, Eggcup is a local food hub, they stop surplus food from going to waste and get it to people instead.

Fresh baked bread from Filbert’s Bakery.Fresh baked bread from Filbert’s Bakery.
Fresh baked bread from Filbert’s Bakery.

Eggcup relies on income from its members, as well as emergency funding through the Covid crisis, volunteer support, and donations.

As a member of our partnership, with an aligned vision of making healthy food affordable, we are working with Eggcup to create awareness of local growers, producers and makers with a Midwinter Hamper full of local goodies.

Growing With Grace is a co-operative founded by a small group of people with a great and worthy ambition: to bring fresh, organic produce to those in the local area, showing that there is an alternative to chemically-treated produce from the supermarket.

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They believe wholeheartedly that not only is organic food better for our health, but organic farming is also better for the land. Located on the edge of north Lancashire, they provide weekly organic veg boxes and grocery deliveries.

Single Step offering package free and local options for more sustainable grocery options.Single Step offering package free and local options for more sustainable grocery options.
Single Step offering package free and local options for more sustainable grocery options.

In the face of a climate emergency, Single Step focuses on making wholefoods with a low environmental impact and great taste available to as many people as possible.

Ethics are at the heart of what they do...from the loose goods which enables customers to purchase plastic-free groceries, to their cooperative business structure. Their fresh, organic fruit and vegetables are as local and seasonal as possible, and none of it is air freighted.

Filberts bakes hand-made bread and treats. Organic, fairtrade and locally sourced ingredients are used wherever possible. Their approach is to be as far away as possible from the bread we are familiar with in the supermarket, where the focus is on speed and price at the expense of flavour, and nutrition.

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Each hamper includes fresh veg from Growing with Grace, and a £5 gift voucher to both Single Step and Filberts to pick out something that suits your fancy.

You can purchase the Midwinter Hamper, knowing that your order benefits these and other local businesses by paying the vendors for their products - crucial in these extraordinary circumstances.

Additionally, Eggcup will receive all proceeds from the sales in order to continue their work of building a more resilient food system for their food club members.

Go to www.FoodFutures.org.uk/hamper to learn more about what is included and to place your order for a vegan, vegetarian, or omnivore hamper.

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