Community Food Resilience Consultation

What is food resilience? How can we live this question in community? Come see what we’ve started and help to plan the next phase. Food resilience is becoming increasingly important in these times of uncertainy. Growing, foraging, preserving, cooking and sharing food is also a wonderful tool for bringing community together, as well as being far more efficient when done collectively. This Community Food Resilience Consultation, hopefully the first of many, will be hosted and opened by Hannah and Daniel who are lucky enough to already live on the land at Bowden Pillars Farmhouse. They will start by sharing about their fairly exteme experiement in food resilience - only eating wild foods (largely from the land at Bowden Pillars) for a week at the end of October. They will share some of their key learnings and provide some accessible ways others could integrate more wild foods into their diets. We will then hear from Sid from the Bowden Farm Collective about how the regenerative agriculture projects on the BPF land are supporting long term food resilience. The remaining time will be spent exploring different aspects of food resilience through breakout discussion groups including areas such as food growing, bulk shopping and cooking, community meals and supporting local food producers. By the end of the evening we hope to have some next steps as to how we can expand the networks of community food resilience.