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TAMAR
VALLEY MARKETING PROJECT
The
Tamar Valley Marketing Project has reached its half way point – and
boasts some notable achievements. The £149,000
project was set up to promote the Tamar Valley following the 2001 Foot
and Mouth outbreak . The project played a major role in organising
the highly-praised Festival of the Tamar Valley in June. Other successes
include helping with the setting up of new cooperative initiatives among
craft workers, and fine wood furniture makers in the area; the promotion
of the Tamar Valley on a Wessex Trains railway carriage; supporting the
Tamar Valley Tourism Association’s Bridges of the Tamar Valley
competition and exhibition; promoting tourism through leaflets and accommodation
directories; and looking after the key website www.tamarvalleytourism.co.uk.
A number of journalists have visited the valley and written articles
about the area following invitations from the organisation. Marketing
advice for small businesses is arranged through West Devon Business Information
Point.
For more information contact Bob Barrett on 01822 813622.
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Farming,
Food and Farmers Markets - A Directory of Web-based Information Resources:
National
Association of Farmers Markets
http://www.farmersmarkets.net/
The Association has been established:
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To promote Farmers' Markets and assist in the formation of new
ones
- To
support existing Farmers' Markets and enable them to expand and
remain self-sustaining
- To
define and accredit the Farmers' Market concept and grant accreditation
only to those markets which conform to the agreed criteria
- To
represent the interests of Farmers' Markets and lobby for measures
that would help them
- To
seek support of the range of Regional, National and European agencies
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DEFRA
www.defra.gov.uk
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is often seen as
being simply about farming and supporting farmers. It still has that traditional
role but its concerns go far wider: our highly complex food chain involves
not only production and processing, but issues such as food safety, the
environmental impact of farming, and the wider contexts of the UK economy
and the European Union.
Soil
Association
www.soilassociation.org
The Soil Association is the UK's leading campaigning and certification
body for organic food and farming.
National
Farmers Union
www.nfu.org.uk
The National Farmers' Union is the democratic organisation representing
farmers and growers in England and Wales.
Farm Retail Association
www.farmshopping.com
The Farm Retail Association represents farmer, growers and farm-based
food producers selling direct to the public.
Food
Links Projects
The food links projects bring together the competing interests in the
food chain and ensure that a consensus is developed locally about what
sort of food system people need in the future.
Devon Food Links
www.devonfoodlinks.org.uk/
South West Food Links
www.southwestfoodlinks.org.uk/
Taste
of the West
www.tasteofthewest.co.uk
Taste
of the West Directory
www.tasteofthewest.co.uk/directory%20frame.htm
WI
Markets
www.wimarkets.co.uk/
Big
Barn
www.bigbarn.co.uk
Search for your nearest Farmers' Market, Farm Shop, box delivery scheme
or PYO Farm by typing the name of your nearest town or your postcode.
A detailed map highlights where they are.
West
DEN
www.westden.co.uk
West Devon Environmental Network (West DEN) is a registered charity that
has won an international reputation for the delivery of a range of projects
that collectively contribute to economic, social and environmental sustainability
and regeneration.
Sustain
www.sustainweb.org
Sustain advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance
the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and
living environment, promote equity and enrich society and culture. They
represent around 100 national public interest organisations working at
international, national, regional and local level.
Foundation
for Local Food Initiatives
www.localfood.org.uk/
This site acts as an information resource and portal for the local food
sector. It hosts the FLAIR project and introduces f3, the Foundation for
Local Food Initiatives. f3 - the Foundation for Local Food Initiatives
- is a not for profit organisation providing consultancy services to the
local food sector.
FLAIR - the Food and Local Agriculture Information Resource is a partnership
project led by f3, to analyse the scale, scope and benefits of the local
food sector in the UK, to help create a national database, and to enable
the development of a national food links network.
The Foody
www.thefoody.com/home.html
The Foody is an independent on-line resource covering all aspects of
English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish food and drink.
With hundreds of recipes both ancient and modern, a large list of farmers'
markets, places to buy locally produced food and an events diary showing
places to visit.
Tavistock Forward
www.tavistockforward.org.uk
Tavistock Forward was conceived in January 1999 in response to the strongly
promoted concept of active involvement by local communities.
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