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Good Food Lewisham is a network of passionate people working together to change the world of food in the London Borough of Lewisham. Our vision is to see our home become a diverse and lively community that connects people to healthy, sustainable and affordable food that is grown, produced and prepared locally to promote a vibrant food culture and prospering local economy.

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Fancy getting into food growing? Lewisham is one of the greenest boroughs in London with fabulous Community gardens and growing spaces. To connect please click link in the bio taking you to the Lewisham Local directory with the gardens listed. #lewisham #letsgrowtogether 🌳🌷

Congratulations RMUK and Action Against Hunger for bringing the new health, food and well-being centre to Downham. Sheer vision, hard work and determination to bring a beautiful centre into the heart of our Lewisham community. Well done all volunteers, Phoenix, Goldsmiths and a particular special credit to the fabulous Stella Headley. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

🎉Excited to announce the next Good Food Lewisham network meeting. If you have a passion for food, composting, food waste, Food growing, cookery and connection please join us on 4th Feb at our new home at Parkside Community Centre. Quick Event brite link Link in bio ⬆️. #https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/good-food-lewisham-network-meeting-tickets-1144173727419?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshiosGoodfoodLewisham #Foodwaste #Composting #Creative-ideas #lewisham

The Lewisham Christmas food list please click on the link tree above for full post ⬆️ #lewisham #lewishamchristmas #goodfoodlewisham

Great fun running interactive workshops with Lewisham schools and Lewisham Climate team and waste team,. Get hands on with pumpkin seed saving, food waste, composting and worms. Can’t wait to grow our seeds from this years pumpkins 🎃#lewisham Thanks for hosting @stillnessjuniors The lewisham pupils climate network

🧡 Thank you for all that you do. Another key player in Lewisham’s fantastic food network. Supporting our communities all year round @ccfoundation_org @fekkyofficial #lewisham 🧡🙏🏻👏🏽💯

Brilliant day at Westminster meeting UK M.P’s. Highlighting the importance of great food networks & support for our communities, schools, and health 🙏🏻@JanetDaby #lewisham @FoodPlacesUK #SFPDayofAction2024

Thank you FELIX and Thank you to the community groups that distribute to our Lewisham Communities #lovelewisham #lewisham @thefelixproject #foodqaste #deptford

Celebrating Organic September Fair Trade Fortnight and our fabulous Lewisham Farmers Market #organicseptember #fairtradefortnight #lewishammarkets

Did you know The Healthy Start Card is accepted at Lewisham Markets where Mastercard is taken? Pictured here are Lewisham And Catford stall holders, proud to be accepting to support parents to purchase fruit and veg #healthystartlewisham are you eligible? Link in bio ⬆️ #healthystartnhs #lewisham

Great to see so many Independant Lewisham businesses accepting the healthy start card. For eligibility link in bio ⬆️. #heathystartlewisham #goodfoodlewisham #lewisham

Lewisham has some incredible food pantries and social supermarkets. supporting communities in times of need. We are happy to announce that they all now accept the healthy Start card to help parents get more nutritional foods for their weekly allowance. #healthystartlewisham #lewisham if you are pregnant or have young children under 4 and on universal credit you may be eligible for a healthy start card. This could help you pay for your basket of groceries from your local community project. Link in bio ⬆️ 🥛🍼🍉🍓🥒🥕🌽🫛

If you are pregnant, have children under 4 and earn under 16k per year you could be eligible for help with fruit, veg, milk, pulses and vitamins. Your Healthy Start card is welcome at any shop that accepts Master card @gflewisham #lewisham #healthystartlewisham

Lewisham wins Sustainable Food Places Silver Award!

Lewisham has won a silver Sustainable Food Places Award, which recognises the borough’s work to promote healthy, sustainable and local food.

This includes the work of everyone (staff, volunteers etc.) involved in Good Food Lewisham and related projects.

Thank you for everyone's input into our Three Year Action Plan which was part of our application.

Both the application and action plan outlined our work on the six key SFP areas - what we've achieved over the last three years and what our plans are for the next three.

The areas include: governance, building the good food movement, promoting food justice and healthy food, supporting local good food business, procurement and food for the planet (which included local food growing).

Blog post for more detail: https://www.goodfoodlewisham.org/post/lewisham-wins-sustainable-food-place-silver-award

Action plan: https://www.goodfoodlewisham.org/post/three-year-action-plan-launch

You can see on the SFP website which other partnerships have won awards and you can read the applications: https://www.sustainablefoodplaces.org/awards/

We're planning a celebration event in the autumn - we hope you can join us there :-)

Thank you all for making the Good Food Lewisham network meeting interesting, fun and tasty. Special thanks to speakers, cooks, volunteers and Frensbury Gardens for the tour of their fabulous community garden and The Honor Oak community centre for hosting #lewisham

Fab day at Blythe Hill Festival. A fun, sustainable festival well planned and with a great selelection of local good food businesses #lewisham

Join us for the launch of our Three Year Action Plan, garden tours, updates from local groups and climate groups and of course food + drinks

We look forward to seeing you at GFL's quarterly network meeting.

We'll share food and drinks, have a tour of Frendsbury Gardens and Honor Oak Community Centre gardens, launch our Three Year Action Plan, hear updates from local groups and climate groups, engage in discussion and networking and take on actions.

What will happen:

Feel free to join for some or all of the day. Please be punctual :-)

Agenda:

11.30 - Arrive to Frendsbury Gardens for the garden tour

12.10 - Walk to Honor Oak Community Centre from Frendsbury Gardens

12.20 - Arrive at Honor Oak Community Centre for the meeting, grab a drink/snack

12.30 - 1.30 - Meeting - hear about Honor Oak Community Centre, hear from groups, discussion

1.30 - 2.15 - Lunch, networking

2.15 - 3.15 - Meeting - Launch of Action Plan, hear from groups, take on actions, discussion

3.15 - 3.30 - Tour of Honor Oak Community Centre + gardens

3.30 - End, help pack down if you can

-Tours of two gardens

-Free community meal + networking

-Hear from local projects to get inspiration

-Hear from local climate projects to get inspiration

-Hear about our three year Action Plan

-Get involved in the good food movement - can your group help with our action plan?

Let us know if your group/project would like to say something, especially if you work on climate or are local to Honor Oak and the surrounding area.

Contact:

For more information email goodfood@lewishamlocal.com, helen@lewishamlocal.com or contact Helen on: 07726425577

Directions and Locations:

Frendsbury Gardens - https://frendsbury.wordpress.com/ - 1 Frendsbury Rd, London, SE4 2BL

Honor Oak Community Centre - https://honoroakcommunitycentre.org/ - 50 Turnham Road, London, SE4 2JD

Today we had a lot of fun celebrating volunteer week with all the colours of the veggie rainbow🌈 prepping, cooking and feeding at the Lewisham Irish centre as part of food cycles twice weekly community meal. If you are tempted to have a go at volunteering and like food and community please email mel@lewishamlocal.com always on the look out for help to join the brilliant food cycle team #lewisham @foodcyclelewisham #volunteerweek

Start your bank holiday weekend this Saturday at Earth Friendly Family Day!

Come and join us for a fun-filled day of eco-friendly activities at the Orchard Gardens Community Centre! Bring the whole family for a day of learning and fun. From recycling workshops to organic gardening demos, there's something for everyone to enjoy. Let's celebrate our planet together and learn how to live a more sustainable lifestyle. Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with nature and each other. See you there!

Organised by RMUK and partners. Supported by Lewisham Local and Good Food Lewisham (we're just helping with hosting on Eventbrite but don't want to take credit for the event!)

The day will be packed with fun climate awareness activities, healthy nutritious foods, arts crafts, film and discussion, family drumming session, massage and music and it's all Free of Charge.

Day Itinerary

Free Breakfast and film at 10.30 am

Join our special guest, environmental justice advocate Jordaine Osaghae, for a lovely breakfast chat. She'll be presenting a short film and leading discussions

Plants, Herbs, Seed sale. Grow your own from 11am - 4pm

If you fancy growing your own but never tried before there will be plenty of help.... You can pot and take home your plants and get advice on how to care and reap the rewards of growing. Whether you are new to growing, a keen grower or an avid grower, we have many plants, seeds, herbs and more for sale to help you on your green journey!

11.30 - 4pm Climate Action Lewisham will engage you in fun games and activities to know your carbon footprint and what you can do to help yourself, your friends, your family and your community as we face extreme climate changes.One to One tips on how to save £100's on your fuel and energy bills. Get to Know your personal carbon footprint

Enjoy delicious food, smoothies and vegan cakes at 12 - 4pm. Guava Kitchen, Ellie from Here2Sereve and Ras Asha will provide a range of taster foods to delight you. Delicious Ital and Cultural Plant-based food served throughout the day!

Fun activities for children of all ages! 12 - 3.30pm

More info in the Eventbrite here: https://rb.gy/9p4dad

A rich and colourful evening of food, conversation and networking. Bought to us by @kitchen_research_unit and RMUK exploring the topic of food oasis and deserts with guest speakers from reading university, action against hunger, sis Stella, Simone Riddle and the fabulous cook Asha from RMUK. #downham #lewisham

If you are a #Lewisham Community group and interested in planting an orchard? Please do join us online Eventbrite link in bio ⬆️

Join us next Friday 10th May 10.30 - 12.30 at Farmstead Road Community Garden to discuss how the network's going and what we want to do next 🙂🌻

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lewisham-food-growing-network-next-steps-tickets-896378260507?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&keep_tld=1

The beauty of natural dyes from flowers and vegetables. Thank you Alice and Alice and the RHS for putting on these free fantastic classes in #lewisham @lgtgardeningclub @aliceburnhope

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