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April 24, 2019
The South Downs National Park is home to growers, producers and retailers of nearly every kind.
If looking down from any vantage point, you’re bound to see farmland of some description, either growing crops or rearing livestock.
As a living, breathing landscape, we all have a duty to care for it and conserve it for the future.
Increasingly, farmers, food producers and community organisations are collaborating together in innovative ways to reduce food waste or to redistribute food surplus.
Below are just some of the inventive ways producers and community groups are tackling food waste.
Brewers We have an abundance of award-winning breweries right on our doorstep.
The spent malt from Langham Brewery feeds a local herd of cattle and fermenter waste is used as part of a field fertiliser!
Franklins, another local brewer, have created a beer using surplus bagels from a Brighton-based bagel producer.
The East Hampshire Community Rail Partnership have set up a Free Shop Friday. Every Friday the Hub Information Office at Petersfield Railway Station has surplus vegetables and fruit from gardens, allotments and local retailers as well as surplus food from supermarkets that anyone is welcome to help themselves to.
The Surplus Food Network The Surplus Food Network is a partnership between Real Junk Food Project, Fareshare Sussex, the Gleaning Network, Sussex Homeless Support, UKHarvest, the Food Partnership and the Food Waste Collective.
Volunteers can take part in many different tasks, from collecting surplus food and dispensing it, cooking and serving meals or picking produce at local farms.
