ORFC 2025 9 – 10 Jan
ORFC 2025 9 – 10 Jan
A recent study suggested that we should be eating seven portions of fruit and vegetables a day, rather than the government-recommended five. However, If the whole UK population were to eat like this, UK growers would need to produce an additional two million tonnes of fresh produce. At the same time, horticultural labour shortages threaten to reduce domestic supply.
LWA and Growing Communities’ Horticulture Campaign has a vision involving massively scaling-up UK organic horticulture production and creating supply systems for every city in the country based on the “Food Zones” model. This session will explore progress in projecting how far such a model could go towards meeting UK demand and outline existing efforts to train, equip and establish a new generation of growers.