Food Contact Chris Hopkins chopkinsx@tiscali.co.uk
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How many miles does the salad in a chain supermarket travel?
What would happen if the chains suddenly ran out of food?
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Small changes - big results.
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Why not buy a bit more locally?
Why not grow some of your own food?
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Ideas to check out:
Try growing something - even start with some herbs!
If you like it, dig a bit more of your garden up. If you love it - get an allotment.
Think about becoming less supermarket dependent:
Use Tring Farmers' Market www.tringfarmersmarket.co.uk and local food shops.
Swop plastic supermarket bottles for milk deliveries from your milkman.
Buy fruit and veg in season.
Finally check out our herb and fruit bushes in the memorial garden. Help yourself - but please pick carefully!
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Local food producers - a small selection
Tring Farmers Market is held alternate Saturdays (the same day as the Auction) www.tringfarmersmarket.co.uk
Waterton Butchers sell locally produced meat and game and have specialist sausages 01442 827575 Dolphin Square, Tring, HP23 5BN
Meads Farm Shop at Wilstone Reservoir has their own cold pressed rape seed oil and also a wide range of fruit, vegetables , meat, preserves etc. www.pemeadandsons.co.uk
Dunsley Farm shop (opposite Tesco) has bargain priced free range hen and duck eggs plus a wide range of fruit, vegetables, meat and cooked dishes etc.
Tring Brewery has a wide range of wonderful beers available from the brewery www.tringbrewery.co.uk
Claire Waite, The Hermitage, Aylesbury Road, Tring tel 07871 728316 - phone first - has honey, preserves, jams, pickles
Grove Farm pick-your-own vegetables and fruit www.grovefarmpyo.co.uk
See also an excellent list from Hemel in Transition http://www.hemelintransition.org/food/local-food/