About Us
Liverpool Food Growers Network supports food growing projects across the Liverpool city region.
Our aim is to increase the amount of fresh fruit and vegetables grown by communities ensuring fair access to all. We believe that community food growing can have a significant, positive impact on our communities and can make our city a fairer, greener and more sustainable place to live and thrive.
Our objectives:
To support the long-term sustainability of food growing projects and organisations across the Liverpool City Region.
To enhance green and blue infrastructure.
To promote, support and educate people to grow food sustainably, using methods that enhance biodiversity, soil ecology and increase resilience to climate change.
To increase the amount of fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs grown sustainably by community growers.
To improve the distribution of, and access to, locally grown food to reduce food insecurity.
To promote sustainability and environmental action through our network members, and encourage active collaboration and partnership.
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Minna is the chief executive and founder of Compost Works. She is passionate about the environment, particularly waste reduction and soil regeneration. Minna would love to see more people in Liverpool City Region to take an interest of communal growing and composting.
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Lucy is a food campaigner who works with the charity Feedback on community focused activities, education and advocacy to reduce food injustice. She’s a keen cook & photographer who enjoys a morning walk in Woolton Woods every day.
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Charlotte is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Liverpool where she does academic research and teaches on all things food-related. She is passionate about tackling food insecurity and the role of community food growing in creating a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system. Her recent work as part of the Rurban Revolution project is providing important new evidence of the many benefits of urban food growing for people and planet.
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Jon is a Director at Groundwork working across Cheshire, Lancashire and Merseyside. He is involved in three large community food growing projects and passionate about creating more of these fantastic spaces that bring people together in local communities.
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A commercially accredited former central government project manager, John has given up the suits in favour of the soil. John brings his considerable experience in governance, fundraising and community engagement to the table. John is also chair or a trustee of various other charities and not for profit groups.
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Beth is a Psychology researcher at the University of Liverpool where she studies how we make decisions about our food, and how the environment an our food affect our health and well-being. She is a particularly interested in how growing more food in our towns and cities can support a healthy, sustainable food system that means everyone has access to fresh fruit and vegetables. She works with community food growers and researchers to develop new evidence about this and the benefits that food growing can have for people and environmental health.
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Kirsty is a food grower, gardener and designer. Having owned allotments and grown at home for years, she has recently embarked on a new community garden project at The Florrie in Liverpool’s Dingle. She is passionate about growing for food security, equality, education and mental health.
“I am a volunteer gardener because I care about my community and the environment .”
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