In November Good Food Bucks met to plan our Food Partnership work for 2025, identifying three priorities for the year ahead - Access, Celebrate and Collaborate. Specifically, we want to showcase the great food that the county grows and produces, highlight those working hard to improve the quality of food in our schools and hospitals, investigate the importance of food within different communities and share the best local recipes and organisations.
What better way to start 2025 and to celebrate food and farming than at the Oxford Real Farming Conference. ORFC began in 2010 with a few people in a room in Oxford and now welcomes over 1800 delegates each January at venues across Oxford. Its a place for farmers, growers, policymakers, activists and researchers to share progressive ideas about food and farming systems.
The themes for this years conference include Farm Practice, Food and Farm Policy, Justice Strand, Landworkers Alliance and La Via Campesina, Listening to the Land and Youth. I'm looking forwards to catching up with friends and colleagues and listening to the wide variety of speakers including a fellow Churchill Fellow Helen Woodcock and JC Niala, Vicki Hird and Jonty Brunyee, who have all previously spoken at OxCAN Sustainable Food and Farming events.
I shall be writing a follow up blog post on the conference later this month. Hope to see some of you there.
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