A wild salad prepared by Olga Whitmore

A school of sustainable life?

Your responses are coming in fast, showing us that there is potential for a local produce shop. It has also sparked off new ideas.

Whitmore. The Sustainability Group's eco- inspirer and teacher, who creates salads from edible flowers and foraged plants, suggests to use the store as A School of sustainable life. She says " I love the idea of the local food store because i am looking forward to having somewhere in town to be able to show people how to make wonderful salads, healthy food and introduce people to the wild food available locally around us that we ignore every day"

Courgette flowers salad

The more we are connected to the source of our food and the more we understand how things are grown, it gives us a greater respect for the whole process .Once you live through the cycles of growing food  or going out and foraging for food, it connects you in a way to nature that going to the store and buying food shipped from thousands of miles away and in plastic packages doesn’t.

Having my own garden makes me respect food more. By respecting it more, I think it gives you a healthier relationship with food­.

Olga Whitmore