Welcome to Sustainable Food Guide...

One award winning organic scheme, called Growing with Nature adopted a 'box scheme' where boxes of vegetables are delivered to people's homes. Eighty-five percent of sales are within a 15-mile radius marketing initiative. An independent environmental audit carried out by Sustain in 1999 gave a figure of 2.8 miles travelled per bag from field to plate. The same survey showed that a UK-grown cabbage in a city supermarket travelled nearly 400 miles.

Review
Find Out where your food comes from.
Several supermarkets are now making moves to source more British food. ASDA were the first with their Buy British campaign "‘Good, Honest Value - Celebrating Home-grown Produce’, followed by TESCO who is sourcing an extra £15m from UK farmers.
Plot the miles your food travels.
Check whether you can get the same food locally.

Consider the rules for procurement

Involve
Discuss and decide what phrases you can use to encourahge local food procurement
Train some sustainable food practitioners.

Possible Policy Statement

Our food will be sourced locally wherever possible.

Suggested Indicators

Energy needed to transport produce.
Distance travelled by produce.
Availability of locally sourced and locality produce.