The Food Co-ops & Buying Groups project presents its 2nd East Anglian conference:

GROWING, SELLING, BUYING: IN YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY

Linking up food co-ops, buying groups, allotment plotholders, community gardens, urban scrumpers, & small producers

Monday 6 February 10:00 – 4:00

Sproughton Tithe Barn near Ipswich, Suffolk

www.sproughtontithebarn.org.uk

Harvesting & distributing fruit that would otherwise be left to rot

Maria Iacovou of Wivenhoe buying group:

Troubleshooting & diversifying session for wholefood buying groups

Eloise Dey - London’s Capital Growth project, supporting community gardens to sell surplus

Meet the Local Foods Suffolk team

Rebecca Tully – Cropshare stall selling allotmentholders’ surplus in Walthamstow

Metfield Chicken Co-op & Suffolk’s Pig Clubs

+ Networking with local groups and Action Planning to help set up or improve your community food project

+ Delicious lunch of local seasonal produce

Contact: gemma@sustainweb.orgor 07971 863 586

More information and a toolkit showing how to

get started is available at www.foodcoops.org