Sustainable Brampton brings a Harvest Market for September!

A festival of locally produced food will be held in Brampton’s Market Place on Sunday 21st September between 1pm and 4pm. 

Sustainable Brampton’s “Harvest Market” will bring together large-scale producers of local food, and home grown produce from allotments and gardens, as well as home-made jams and jellies, scones and cakes, butter and beer.   The market will show how local skills and energy are making our land more productive and our carbon footprint smaller. 

Sustainable Brampton is concerned about today’s world of food insecurity and dependence on unstable global markets, and believes it is important to build on the resources we have locally to satisfy our food needs.  

There are many local residents of Brampton and the surrounding area with extensive skills in growing their own food. Sustainable Brampton is developing a Gardeners’ Network so that these skills can be shared, and people helped to begin producing their own fruit and vegetables.

The Harvest Market will provide information about this project as well as the work Sustainable Brampton is doing to help secure new allotments for the community. Local commercial production will be represented by various large-scale growers and producers.

Claudia Abbott-Barish, a volunteer with Sustainable Brampton, who has been organising the Harvest Market, said, “A move towards a system of more localised food production will make the community more independent from the fluctuating prices of supermarkets.  It will also lessen our impact on the environment by reducing the distance our food has to travel and the packaging required to distribute it.”  

“Much of the time we buy food from half way around the world, even when the same food is available from our own fields.  By producing our own food we become more attuned to the natural growing seasons, making us more aware of when seasonal, local food should be available in the shops.”

“So join us on Sunday, the 21st of September in our celebration of our community’s potential to make changes for a better future, and above all else, to enjoy good food!”

For more information contact:

Claudia Abbot-Barish  07841140427