Hello and welcome to our weekly NGFP Local Lunch podcast trailer where we provide you, our lovely listeners, with 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.

Our guest this week is a true pioneer and urban planning maverick! She is Dr Laura Alvarez who is senior principal, urban design and conservation officer for Nottingham City Council. Now you may ask why we have an urban design practitioner on the podcast, when we are all about all things food?

Laura is a really important partner for NGFP - with Laura we have co-authored a ground breaking planning guidance document that will embed nature, food growing and access to green space for communities to gather together. This is the first piece of planning guidance to be directed by the community and we are expecting a lot of interest when it goes live, this Friday.

Laura is a fascinating person. Born in the city of La Plata in Argentina, we will hear about her passion for her city and how it has shaped and influenced her career.

So tune in this Friday at 1.30 - we will be making history!

Simply search for NGFP Local Lunch on your browser and we will pop up!

See you then!

Hello and welcome to our weekly NGFP Local Lunch podcast 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!

It’s a very busy time for NGFP, we are about to embark on a piece of research asking local people in Bestwood and Sneinton about social eating, growing and composting in their area and for us to understand how this all relates to Nottingham’s carbon neutral 2028 action plan. Our guest this week is Marsha Smith, who is our lead community researcher for the project.

But first as always - let’s talk about lunch! This week our seasonal local offering is a veggie stew with parsnips, jackfruit, borlotti beans, red peppers saved from our grocer's bin, lots of garlic, fresh ginger, sunflower seeds served with buttered sourdough toast - YUM!

Our Marsha Smith a social innovator, seasoned community activist and founder of Superkitchens - she is also our friend of many years.

After 7 years of working in the social enterprise sector, Marsha moved into academia to undertake research on participation and social eating. She is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Business in Society at Coventry University, a Visiting Fellow at The Nottingham Trent University and an academic advisor and consultant.

We like to call her the Mother of Social Eating - she's fascinating and inspiring so tune in.

Hello and welcome to our weekly NGFP Local Lunch podcast 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!

It’s a very busy time for NGFP, we are about to embark on a piece of research asking local people in Bestwood and Sneinton about social eating, growing and composting in their area and for us to understand how this all relates to Nottingham’s carbon neutral 2028 action plan. Our guest this week is Marsha Smith, who is our lead community researcher for the project.

But first as always - let’s talk about lunch! This week our seasonal local offering is a veggie stew with parsnips, jackfruit, borlotti beans, red peppers saved from our grocer's bin, lots of garlic, fresh ginger, sunflower seeds served with buttered sourdough toast - YUM!

Our Marsha Smith a social innovator, seasoned community activist and founder of Superkitchens - she is also our friend of many years.

After 7 years of working in the social enterprise sector, Marsha moved into academia to undertake research on participation and social eating. She is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Business in Society at Coventry University, a Visiting Fellow at The Nottingham Trent University and an academic advisor and consultant.

We like to call her the Mother of Social Eating - she's fascinating and inspiring so tune in.

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.

Joining us for a seasonal plant based lunch this week is award winning, social innovator, Marsha Smith who founded the social eating enterprise, Super Kitchen,

After 7 years of working in the social enterprise sector, Marsha moved into academia to undertake research on participation and social eating. She is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Business in Society at Coventry University, a Visiting Fellow at The Nottingham Trent University and an academic advisor and consultant.

Marsha will talk about her life experiences and why she is so passionate about bringing social eating to the masses.

So tune in this Friday at 1.30 to hear Marsha Smith - she’s going to be brilliant!

Simply Search for NGFP Local Lunch on your browser and we will pop up!

See you then!

Hello and welcome to our weekly NGFP Local Lunch podcast which reveals 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 fabulous guest let’s talk about lunch.

This week it is roasted garlic and butternut squash with lemon thyme with a side of red cabbage and fennel slaw with pomegranate. It is fresh and tasty and full of vitamins. Find the recipe and nutritional information on the NGFP facebook page after this!

This Friday our guest joining us for lunch is Simon Scargill who is the man behind Robin Hood Veg. Simon is a permaculture designer passionate about growing healthy, natural food for local people. We will get to know all about Simon, his introduction to gardening by his grandad, why he loves to grow food and his vision for using land in our city, more productively.

Hello and welcome to the NGFP Local Lunch podcast trailer to tell you about this week’s podcast on Friday 17 January. Now tomorrow our podcast will go live a little later at 3pm as we are doing a community cooking demo with Nottingham City Homes in Basford - and even WE can’t be in two places at once!

Before we introduce our guest let’s talk about what’s on the menu for tomorrows lunch! We will be serving up roasted butternut squash with garlic and lemon thyme with a side dish of red cabbage and fennel coleslaw YUM!

Our guest joining us for lunch this week is Simon Scargill, the green fingered permaculture gardener behind Robin Hood Veg. Simon has always been a gardener, it all began with his grandad when Simon used to help him with his peelings trench. So What is a peeling’s trench? We will find out tomorrow. Simon is also a seasoned environmental campaigner - in the 80’s he joined the ranks of protesters fighting road network expansions and we look forward to hearing his story about that. When it came time to start work, he felt called by trees and gardens. He completed a permaculture design course and ready to set up his own food growing business.

Simon formed Robin Hood Veg to supply ultra-local, healthy and heritage variety veg and salad to the folk of Nottingham, with the social element of supplying excess to community groups across the city. He is a man with great ideas and huge amounts of knowledge, so join us to find out about one of Nottingham’s food heroes.

So join us for lunch with Simon this Friday at 3.00 pm simply search NGFP Local Lunch on your browser and we will pop up!

See you then!

Join us here for PART 2 of the interview with Professor David Salt

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!

Tune in two part 2 of this episode today and look out for our podcast trailer next week when we will introduce Alex Begg, tree officer for Nottingham City Council.

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!

Search for NGFP Local Lunch on your browser and we will pop up!

See you then!

Yes! It's a first, we have put this episode featuring Kimberly Bell in 2 parts - she has so much to share and we didn't want to miss it.