Hello and welcome to our weekly NGFP Local Lunch podcast trailer where we provide you, our lovely listeners everything you need to know about Nottingham’s local food heroes and how you can get more involved in our vibrant local food scene!

Local lunch is brought to you by me Shona Munro and me Penney Poyzer of Nottingham Good Food Partnership the go to organisation for sustainable food in our fair city.

Before we introduce our guest, we’d like to give you the heads up on an event taking place next week on Thursday 16th January with registration from 5pm which YOU can get involved with. The Wellbeing Design Guide workshop will provide a real life social housing scheme for participants to test design elements that support health and wellbeing, including providing access to nature, food growing spaces and green spaces for people to come together to eat and grow food. The results of the workshop will become live elements of the housing scheme and create an exemplar of good living. To book a free ticket please search for the Wellbeing Design Guide Launch on billetto.co.uk.

Now to our guest who is David Salt, Professor of Genome Enabled Biology in the School of Biosciences.

David’s research focuses on the molecular mechanisms that plants use to take up and accumulate the essential mineral nutrients that they need for normal growth and development. He is also interested in how plants mistakenly accumulate potentially toxic trace elements such as cadmium and arsenic. These issues are important for agriculture, human health as plants are a major source of dietary mineral, and food safety due to accumulation of potentially toxic trace elements in food.

David is also the Director of the University's Future Food Beacon of Excellence, a new research cluster which addresses the challenges of feeding a growing population in a changing world. The Future Food Beacon is an open research platform that brings together expertise from across the food chain – from soils, crop and livestock production, to food production, nutrition, food access and the historical and cultural aspects of food– to deliver sustainable solutions to global food and nutritional security.

David is also a skilled gardener, has been known to make cheese and play the guitar. Probably not at the same time, although he is very clever…

We are delighted to have David on the Show, he is immensely supportive of the work of NGFP and we in turn are members of the beacon’s external advisory board.

So tune in this Friday at 1.30pm and join us for a fascinating discussion over a tasty, plant based, locally sourced meal - of course!

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See you then!