Climate Action on a Plate across Cambridge for Food for the Planet Festival

This year's Food for the Planet Festival saw community food events, meals, workshops, special offers and fun days out all over Cambridge with a focus on Climate Action on a Plate.

Thank you so much to:

• Our wonderful volunteers for making it happen

• Luthfa for your delicious curries

• Chef Tristan Welch for your brilliant cooking demo

• The Grand Arcade for inviting us to be part of your Let's Go Circular event

• Transition Cambridge for your community garden open day

• The Edge Recovery Cafe and C3 Church for your special community meals

• All the schools, colleges, businesses and local groups who took part

• Cambridge City Council and Sustain for your support.

Feedback from visitors to the festival was overwhelmingly positive. Many families loved the food on offer - especially the bean burgers - and recipe kits were popular with families reporting that they were looking forward to trying them at home. Cooking demonstrations also proved popular with attendees saying that they now felt confident to try new ingredients at home.

After an orchard visit by the Brownies, the leader said: “It was amazing to see the children making so many connections between nature and their food and really understanding what our environment means!”

Food and climate, and the Food for the Planet Festival, is a key part of our Gold Food Cambridge campaign. This campaign aims to ensure that the city becomes the third Gold Sustainable Food Place in the UK, following in the footsteps of Brighton and Bristol.