Welcome to Food Exeter! A charity working for sustainable and healthy food for all in Greater Exeter.
We seek lasting change to our local food system by tackling the issues of food poverty,
diet-related ill health, food waste and unsustainable farming practices.
Our focus is on achieving strategic, step change across the city.
Food Exeter c/o St Sidwells Community Centre, Sidwell Street, Exeter EX4 6NN
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Fair Access to Food
We believe that everyone has the right to enough nutritious food. Yet thousands of people in Exeter are not able to eat a healthy diet. and/or enough food at all. Food poverty, food insecurity and malnourishment are all realities for far too many people in Exeter. Food Exeter wants to see people on low incomes being able to access healthy, nutritious, sustainably grown food. That means working for systematic change so handouts and foodbanks become a thing of the past. We use the term Fair Access to Food because there are people who are eating a poor diet who are not in food poverty.
https://foodexeter.org.uk/what-we-do/fair-access-to-food/
Sustainable Local Food Economy
We want to see a significant increase in the production of local, sustainably grown food – food that is good for people and for our environment. A strong, local food economy will provide economic resilience, improve work and volunteering opportunities in a low carbon Devon, and enable and encourage people to eat more healthily.
Current methods of food production are entirely unsustainable. They are causing serious damage to our soils, rivers, and wildlife, raising animals in conditions that many regard as inadequate for their welfare, and is entirely incompatible with a low carbon future.
https://foodexeter.org.uk/what-we-do/sustainable-local-food-economy/
Food in Communities
We believe that growing, buying, cooking and eating food in community settings – in neighbourhoods, through organisations or local groups – provides numerous benefits. The Covid-19 crisis has led to some great community and voluntary sector efforts to get food to people in need and an explosion of interest in buying local food. We are working to enable people who are living with food poverty to be part of developing solutions. We want Exeter to be a city with a vibrant local food culture, where you can join others in initiatives that deliver mental and physical wellbeing, build a sense of community and connect people to where their food comes from.
