Tag "locally-sourced food"

Dreaming of a seasonal, local Christmas: Fife Diet

Fife Diet, Scotland’s leading local growing and eating movement, have lots of interesting information on their site about cutting down the food miles this Christmas. You’ll find alternative Christmas recipes, a handy local producers map, tips for saving on power usage and ideas for making the most of your festive leftovers. You can also download their charmingly illustrated seasonal growing calendar which shows you what to eat and when. It

The Fife Diet: Working up an appetite for local food

Mike Small started the Fife Diet in 2007, a campaign to eat locally sourced food. Forty years ago he would have had his work cut out; chips, white bread, macaroni cheese pies, scotch pies topped with baked beans and mashed potato, and everything cooked with cloak of  batter or pastry.  Fast forward to 2011 and the Fife Diet is not a sitcom joke but a healthy, tasty selection of organic