A film made by Manchester's Kindling Trust, which explains the various elements we need to consider in building a sustainable food system. The ideas were developed by a group of over 50 organisations working on sustainable food issues in Greater Manchester, UK.

Features a variety of Manchester based sustainable food projects, including Unicorn Grocery, Glebelands organic market garden, DIG delivery, and Hulme Community garden centre.
 

Kindling Trust is deeply indebted to Abi McLoughlin, who shot and edited this film with a budget of under £100!

Including a presentation by Karen inwood from Instituto Permacultura El Salvador

02/12/2009 19:30

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Unicorn Grocery, Manchester's most excellent wholefood store has donated £6,000 to IPES, the Instituto de Permacultura de El Salvador (the El Salvador Permaculture Institute). The link between IPES and Unicorn was forged in 2007, when Debbie Clark, a long standing worker-member at Unicorn Grocery attended a Manchester Permaculture event, in which Karen Inwood, the director of IPES gave a talk about the work of the Institute.

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