Rhubarb Farm: Therapeutic Horticulture and the repair of talking to others.

I have been doing some case study work to see how surplus food is being used by community organisations.  One of these is Rhubarb farm.  Let me introduce you to them. Continue reading

What is Food Justice to you?

In 2014, just a few months after I returned to the U.K. from Hong Kong I wrote the following:

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Increasing Diet Diversity in Low-Income Communities: Some issues and some solutions.

I recently wrote a piece for an online journal called Impakter making the argument that we need to do more than just admonish people to change their diets and that for those in low-income communities this change can be particularly difficult.  This is the text, which initially appeared on ImpakterContinue reading

Fresh Street highlighted in The Mint Magazine

Since 2018 I have been working with colleagues at the University of Sheffield on a research project, Fresh Street, that offers £5 weekly vouchers to families that they can use to buy fruits and vegetables from small local shops or via a veg bag delivery scheme.  I talked about this work recently in an article in The Mint Magazine.  They have made the article publically available.  This is what they have to say about the project. Continue reading