FareShare Brighton is a community food network and is the national charity that works with the food and drink industry to redistribute quality food and other related support services to a community food network of organisations working with disadvantaged people.
There are currently 7 FareShare schemes operating in partnership with local charities across the UK.
This company does not sell food so is not an obvious choice for freerangereview.com, but I feel it is very worthy of a listing here so that other companies can see what they do and possibly help out.
The group essentially redistributes the kind of high quality surplus fresh food discussed on this site, from wholesalers, retailers, such as supermarkets and sandwich bars to day centres and night shelters for homeless people.
Essentially they prevent perfectly edible good food from going to landfill by instead sending it to those who need it.
Check out there site, you can help out as a company or donate as a foodie. Great stuff and so nice to see such terrible waste prevented. There are also clear environmental benefits to this scheme. Landfill causes significant damage to the environment. One tonne of biodegradable food waste produces 200-400 cubic meters of gas. Of this gas, 64% is methane and 34% carbon dioxide with methane having a global warming potential 31 times greater than carbon dioxide.
Springstep Dairy - Mundon
Free range goats kept on the farm, producing lovely milk (full fat, semi and skimmed), cream, yoghurt, wonderful cheese (shame they have to be pasteurised), and not forgetting the ice-cream and fantastic cheesecake! Very friendly owners happy to take you round the farm, and talk about the goats and Llamas - children are very welcome.
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Pumpkin (06.04.08)
