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Food Supplies

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For drop-in centres etc please check that they are currently running during Covid restrictions.

Paddington Farm Trust 
The farm shop  is open all day every day except during the market on Tuesday.
​The market stall is open every Tuesday 8.30 to 2.30.
Contact: Robert MacBeth 07749 685979.

Plotgate Community Farm 
A Community  Benefit Society offering weekly or fortnightly local, natural and seasonal veg boxes to subscribing members.
Based in Barton St David.
 Local food boxes: 07817 608283, or via the website.
Contact: Amy Willoughby.


Bridies Yard Food Co-op 
A not-for-profit, Glastonbury based local organic food co-operative run by a team of volunteers. Our mission is to provide affordable organic food for everyone. Be plastic free, take your own containers.
Contact: Tanya 01458 830577.
Thursday 3pm-8pm, Friday 9am-6pm. Beckery Old Road, Glastonbury, BA6 9NU.

Bridging The Gap – food banks run by Churches Together
To donate food there are collection points at Earthfare, High St. Glastonbury, and Morrisons Supermarket, Glastonbury.
Only canned and packaged food can be accepted.

Food Ministry
 
A drop in centre with drinks and snack is held in Glastonbury United Reform Church every Tuesday afternoon. Soup Lunches with a pudding is available in St Benedict's Church every Friday. An independent group of Christians also distributes soup and sandwiches in St John's Car Park on Thursday evenings. 

Zigzag Building Friday Night Supper
 Every Friday we have a donations based community dinner from 7pm where all are welcome.
​It’s a great way to meet the community and make friends.

Homeless Coach Cafe 
Free Hot drinks and snacks. 

It's Better Consumed Than Composted – where to donate unwanted fresh food, food surplus/garden gluts.
 Local: Steve on 07871807586, or see contacts for Mendip.
         
Glastonbury Community Fridge 
Now open at the Town Hall, 8 am to 4 pm every day. Reducing food waste whilst providing free food for the community.
Email admin@glastonburycommunityfridge.com

Wholefood Co-op
If you would like to join a food coop and souce your grains from UK and encourage our farmers by increasing UK demand
please contact 
Jackie


Regional

Local Food Direct 
 Delivering fresh, local and ethically sourced food direct to homes across Somerset since 2002. Somerset Local Food.

Somerset’s Farmers Markets
 Glastonbury: fourth Saturday each month. Wells: weekly on Wednesdays. Local producers list.

Somerset Community Food 
Somerset Community Food is a grassroots charity which aims to reconnect people with the social, health and environmental effects of growing, buying, preparing and eating local food. They have developed a unique training package that has successfully taught hundreds of people to start growing & cooking food. Unit 7, Abbey Mews,56-58 High Street, Glastonbury, BA6 9D. 
Email: info@somersetcommunityfood.org.uk

Food Bank: Health Connections Mendip  
Free food boxes for people in need.

Dreamers Farm
 Raw Jersey milk in glass bottles delivered to your door. 
Glastonbury early a.m. on Mondays.  Simon & Kate Oakley.
Also free range eggs and yoghurt. 01749 850016 or email sales@dreamersfarm.co.uk

The Milk Hut
 
Raw milk in bottles Frome Road Farm, East Horrington BA5 3DL, Tel 07977 485963.
There is also another milk dispenser in West Horrington at the Cheese Yard Cafe, BA5 3ED. Take your own bottles.

Milk And More
 
 Milk deliveries 3 times a week.

Hurdlebrook Farm Babcary 
Raw Guernsey Milk, collect from farm or on sale Somerton and Keinton Mandeville.
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Wootton Organic Dairy
 
Artisan, unpasteurised cheeses, hand-made on the farm from our own organic sheep and Jersey cows' milk.
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Somerset Cheese Company
 Ditcheat Hill Farm, Ditcheat, Shepton Mallet, Somerset,  BA4 6TL
Specialises in making hard and semi hard, traditional style cheeses from goat, sheep, buffalo and cows milk. The cheeses are naturally mould rinded and are made using vegetarian rennet.They are all hand made with care and attention to detail using quality milk straight from the farmer.

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Other

OLIO is an app that connects neighbours with each other and with local businesses, and each other so surplus food can be shared, not thrown away. This could be food nearing its sell-by date in local stores, spare home-grown vegetables, bread from your baker, or the groceries in your fridge when you go away. Can also be used for non-food household items too.

What is our Staple food, where does it come from? Can and should we sustain this supply? What could we switch to & our local farmers start growing in UK? One company  addressing these questions is Hodmedod’s British Pulses and Grains
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 They are encouraging farmers to grow,  peas, beans and quinoa.Nationally we need to grow more legumes which are a rich source of vegetable protein if we are to cut down on meat and dairy consumption. Quinoa has become very popular and because it is now exported as a cash crop from South America, the farmers and locals villagers often end up eating a nutritionally inferior imported white rice and this is now causing malnutrition in children in Peru and Bolivia. 

The flexitarian Diet To Feed 10 Billion People: 
A bit of meat, a lot of veg.

People’s Food Policy 
Sets out a food system where everybody, regardless of income, status or background, has secure access to enough good food at all times, without compromising on the wellbeing of people, the health of the environment and  ability of future generations to provide for themselves. Food sovereignty is defined by La Via Campesina, the biggest international farmer led union in the world, as ‘the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sounds and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems. Food sovereignty puts those who produce, distribute and eat food at the heart of food systems and policies rather than the demands of markets and corporations’.  People’s Food Policy PDF

Real Food Campaign
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  A new initiative and one to watch from The British Holistic Medical Association in partnership with  the College of Medicine and Integrative Health  Doctors and Healthcare professionals putting their weight behind a whole reappraisal of food, nutrition, agriculture, health and wellbeing of people and the environment.  Many useful links on website. Local Contact Phil Sharratt CE ,Somerset Local Foods

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