Food waste group’s allotment aims to boost produce
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Food Works Sheffield is opening an allotment in Crosspool to grow vegetables for its community cafés, frozen meals and local distribution. The social enterprise hopes the project will strengthen its efforts to reduce food waste while improving access to affordable, healthy food in Sheffield.
The group mainly uses surplus food supplied by businesses and runs two cafés where meals cost £2.50 or less. Its kitchens make hundreds of meals daily, with many frozen for food banks and hospitals; the allotment will particularly help provide ingredients such as beans, onions and garlic that are less commonly available as surplus.
- Food Works Sheffield will open a Crosspool allotment.
- Produce will support cafés, ready meals and local residents.
- The project complements food rescued from businesses.
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Food Works Sheffield is a social enterprise that aims to stop edible food being thrown away and to make affordable meals more available. It collects surplus food from businesses, uses it in community kitchens and cafés, and supplies meals to local organisations.
Food waste can occur when shops, producers or restaurants have food that is still safe to eat but cannot be sold or used through their usual channels. Groups such as Food Works redistribute this food, but the supply can vary and some staple ingredients are often hard to obtain.
Allotments are small plots of land rented or managed for growing fruit and vegetables. Growing some produce directly can give community food projects a more reliable source of ingredients while complementing the food they receive from surplus supplies.