Food Waste https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/category/food-waste/ Sussex people inspiring a climate for change Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:57:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Exciting new family friendly event in Horsham https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/exciting-new-family-friendly-event-in-horsham/ Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:36:36 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=34306 Press release – PLANT TO PLATE FESTIVAL – brought to you by Sussex Green Living Growing together – Food – Fun – Family – Free From 10am-4pm on Saturday 26th April, Horsham will come alive to celebrate green living in Sussex – perfect for mums, dads, and little ones alike. It’s a day packed with […]

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]]> Country Ways https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/country-ways/ Thu, 22 Aug 2024 08:00:23 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=32374 Country Ways: Val volunteers with Transition Horsham which runs the community allotment. She has decades of experience, as since childhood, she worked alongside her father on his allotment. When she married, she and her husband grew everything: cabbages, turnips,
swedes, cauliflower, runner beans, potatoes, radishes, gherkins, onions…and nothing was wasted. Even the swede and turnip leaf […]

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]]> How to Store Food to Prevent Waste https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/how-to-store-food-to-prevent-waste/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:21:12 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=26412 We are all guilty of wasting food but did you know that 25% of food wasted in UK households is due to cooking, preparing or serving too much? This costs us £3.5 billion a year. So being savvy with our food can prevent waste and save us money, not to mention the benefit to the […]

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]]> Veganuary 10th Anniversary https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/veganuary-10th-anniversary/ Thu, 26 Jan 2023 07:03:30 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/?p=25439 2023 is the tenth anniversary of Veganuary, a month during which people don’t fast entirely, but simply commit to just eating plants. The vegan organisation GenV was started by Matthew Glover who also came up with the increasingly popular idea of Veganuary.  GenV doesn’t take donations from the public but has a number of celebrity […]

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]]> Horsham Vegan Market (first published in West Sussex County Times) https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/horsham-vegan-market/ Thu, 01 Sep 2022 06:00:12 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/?p=23444 Pires Place Vegan Market is conveniently placed in the centre of Horsham in Piries Place.  It’s a regular event and takes place on the last Saturday of each month from 9.30am to 3.30pm. Featuring up to 16 stalls, the vegan market offers tasty cold food varying from plant-based artisan ‘cheeze’, pies and savouries through to […]

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]]> Taste or Waste? (first published in West Sussex County Times) https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/taste-or-waste/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:00:28 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/?p=23436 I recently listened to a Sustainable Squad podcast (Listen to this episode now on @spotify and @applepodcasts) with Shane Jordan, who became a chef by chance because of his involvement with Food Cycle, collecting unwanted food from shops by bicycle then taking it to be cooked at a Sussex community centre. In his book, Food Waste […]

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]]> Refill is the new Recycle https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/refill-is-the-new-recycle/ Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:59:25 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/?p=22418 I’ve always considered myself to be a bit of a greenie, I recycle after all! However, last month I took part in The Big Plastic Count organised by Greenpeace and Everyday Plastic. The aim was to count my plastic packaging waste over the course of a week and record it as part of a nationwide […]

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]]> Seeds and Spring into Spring (first published in West Sussex County Times) https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/seeds-and-spring-into-spring-first-published-in-west-sussex-county-times/ Fri, 11 Mar 2022 16:35:19 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/?p=21431 Did you make it to the Transition Horsham Seed Swap last weekend, at the Kinder Living Home Show? If so, you will know that there was seed available from local allotmenteers, gardeners and Garden Organic … as well as a lot of talk about how things grew last year! If you missed it – never […]

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]]> February green events in Horsham https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/february-green-events-in-horsham/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 22:03:30 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/?p=21136 Don’t forget this Saturday it is our Sussex Green Hub event at the URC Horsham RH12 2RG (near Wilko off West Street and the Lynd Cross pub and opposite  St John the Evangelist). This collaborative community event is on the last Saturday every month 10 – 4pm, this month we have some extra activities within […]

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]]> Green Chat Weekly Pop-Up! https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/green-chat-weekly-pop-up/ Thu, 18 Nov 2021 11:04:26 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/?p=20065 The post Green Chat Weekly Pop-Up! appeared first on Sussex Green Living.

]]> Wow No Cow! by Keir Hartley (first published in West Sussex County Times) https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/wow-no-cow-by-keir-hartley/ Thu, 19 Aug 2021 12:54:15 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/?p=18810 If you are reading this column, there’s a good chance that you have an urge to do ‘the right thing’. You’re the sort who’s first to help in a crisis. You were the first to raise the subject of climate change. And the first to actually do something about it! And what better first step […]

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]]> Lets visualise Horsham in 2030 together https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/horsham2030/ Fri, 09 Jul 2021 14:46:59 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/?p=18744 At our next Sussex Green Ideas online meeting, on July 21st at 7.00pm, we will be useing two books to help identify what Horsham District groups could usefully build now – and by 2030. Chris Goodall – “What do we need to do now?” (discussed at Steyning Green Books 6/5/21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrxFSLl9tsw). Chris explained a number […]

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]]> A Fairer Easter for People and Planet https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/a-fairer-easter-for-people-and-planet/ Thu, 25 Mar 2021 22:20:59 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/?p=16535 This article by Marie Allen, Fairtrade Horsham, was published in West Sussex County Times on 11.3.21 Horsham has been a Fairtrade town since 2005 and we are lucky to have so many shops and cafes which offer Fairtrade products, giving farmers and producers a better deal. Fairtrade Fortnight, which ended on March 8th, had Climate Justice as […]

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]]> Spring into your eco garden and home! https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/spring-into-your-eco-garden-and-home/ Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:36:49 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/?p=16062 The post Spring into your eco garden and home! appeared first on Sussex Green Living.

]]> How We Can Enjoy the 12 Rs of Christmas https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/12-rs-of-christmas/ Tue, 15 Dec 2020 08:14:26 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/?p=15500 West Sussex County Times our weekly column – 10.12.20 by Karen Park, Horsham Eco Churches Here’s a chance to think about how we can enjoy a greener, more sustainable Christmas!   Read the full article below.       REDUCE – Use less. The most important R word, conserving precious resources and saving money, whilst […]

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]]> Horsham Eco Churches Connect to Nature https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/horsham-eco-churches-connect-to-nature/ Tue, 27 Oct 2020 22:27:11 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/?p=15071 Horsham Eco Churches Horsham Eco Churches was set up by Silver Eco Church Award winning St Mark’s Church and Brighton Road Baptist Church through Horsham Churches Together (HCT). We encourage and inspire other churches on their Eco Church journey, and seven other HCT Churches have already registered with A Rocha UK’s Eco Church award scheme. […]

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]]> Food and community resilience https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/food-and-community-resilience/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:51:21 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/?p=14747 On Tuesday the 15th of September, we had a very interesting talk from Adam Stark from The Food Resilience Project in Cootham. Adam teaches religion and philosophy at the Weald School, and is a self-published writer as well as an environmental campaigner, along a list of other accomplishments. The evening started with a movie trailer […]

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]]> Talks about food waste and local food https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/talks-about-food-waste-and-local-food/ Wed, 09 Sep 2020 13:06:19 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/?p=14490 Next Tuesday at 7pm the Horsham Future Forum will be listening to a talk about The Food Resilience Project at Cootham presented by Adam Stark. You can book FREE tickets to this or any other Horsham Future Forum, Youth Eco Forum and Horsham Climate Cafe events using our Eventbrite page here. Last Tuesday’s Horsham Future […]

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]]> Saving money through growing and swapping food https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/saving-money-through-growing-and-swapping-food/ Wed, 22 Apr 2020 22:38:07 +0000 https://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/?p=13261 On Saturday 18th April, Horsham Climate Cafe met for its fourth virtual meeting since lockdown began. One of the benefits of moving online during the COVID19 pandemic is the number of people able to join from further afield as we had environmentalists calling in from as far away as Ireland. With self-isolation set to continue and the weather still in our favour, the discussion focused around ‘grow your own’ as a money-and-planet-saving way to stay connected to nature during this time.

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]]> Food Waste – the big picture https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/food-waste-the-big-picture/ Sun, 18 Oct 2015 22:28:02 +0000 http://www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk/?p=7438 Ok, hands up, who has ever thrown a banana skin in a bush after a picnic? Maybe chucked an apple core out of the window of your car whilst travelling down a quiet country road? I expect a few people have done this in the past. And why not? It’s biodegradable, right? Whilst this may […]

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