Transition Food
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Priority Project
Part-time Carnivore
Part-Time Carnivore is an online pledge that persuades regular meat eaters to cut down to a more fair, sustainable and healthy level of meat consumption. We are offering universities, students unions and People & Planet groups the chance to start their own Part-Time Carnivore pledge mini-sites and get as many people to sign up as possible. The potential savings in land usage and carbon emissions are huge! And its a great way to monitor the impact of your campaigns in reducing the uni’s carbon foodprint. Get your own Part-time Carnivore mini pledge
- Start a Scoop Group to provide students with fresh, sustainable, affordable food on campus
- Check out the Transition Ideas Wiki for an online bank of ideas on student-led sustainability projects
Practical Projects
- Set up an allotment on campus. Check out case studies and how-to guide here
- Organise grow-your-own workshops & skill shares
- Set-up a community gardening scheme eg: Grofun
- Get stuck into guerilla gardening. Check out our how-to guide
- Design and build a permaculture garden.
- Plant a university orchard.
- Set-up a food co-op - Look here for more info and the how-to-guide
- Set up an ‘Abundance’ group to gather fruit from unharvested trees. Check out the Abundance How-to-guide
- Create a map of places you can forage for free food
Engagement & Awareness-raising
- Use produce from your allotment or veg box scheme to create a free veggie/vegan meal at your union
- Hold Vegan food tasting
- Put on trips to local farms, allotments or permaculture gardens
- Organise a foraging expedition (make sure you take an expert/guide)
- Hold vegetarian/vegan cooking workshops. For recipies and info see the Vegan Society, Vegetarian Society, Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation
- Collective cooking with international student socs or faith groups
- Give out free recipe cards or grow-your-own seasonal calendars
Building Community
- Set-up or support a Community Supported Agriculture scheme teaming up with a local farm
- Invite your local farmers market to have stalls at your union/campus
- Promote local vegan and vegetarian cafes and businesses
- Start an Adopt-a-Garden or Borrow-a-Student schemes to turn unruly gardens into productive growing areas for young families or elderly folk
Creating institutional change
- Lobby for more veggie and vegan options on all uni menus and catering outlets
- Meet with your Catering Manager and introduce a Sustainable Food Policy - download a template policy (or Word version)
- Get your Union cafe to have Meat-Free Mondays
- Persuade university catering outlets to work towards the Soil Association’s Food for Life Catering Mark
- Lobby for fresh, sustainable, local food sourcing for shops and catering outlets
- Lobby university to increase allotment provision on campus
- Get vegan beers in the SU bar
