Information sheet : Eating local and seasonal food
Resource: PDF
These information sheets for teachers and pupils give an overview of the increase in world trade of food and our increased reliance on imported food. They summarise the environmental, social and economic impacts of such a global food trade.
They outline the benefits to a more local food supply as an alternative to our current food supply systems - a system that re-engages us with fresh, seasonal and organic food and how the Soil Association is supporting this transition.
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Eat seasonably
Interactive seasonality calendar
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Fish purchasing guide
Complex and detailed web pages on choosing fish aimed at the trade, but includes a useful chart showing when fish are in season
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Eat the seasons
Web pages giving information and recipes for seasonal food from Britain and Europe month by month. Includes veg, fruit, nuts, herbs, fungi, meat, game, fish and seafood.
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Practical Action - Rethink seasonal foods
One page teacher's guide to food miles with activity suggestions to help students understand them.
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International Institute for Environment and Development’s ‘Fair miles: recharting the food miles map’
48-page book to download, or purchase for £5, looking at how concern over food miles could adversely affect producers in the developing world
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Ninjin: The way of the vegetable assassin
Film spoof attacking unseasonable veg
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