Bucks Food Revolution: Film Screening: 'A Life On Our Planet' & Q&A panel

A Life on Our Planet covers many environmental themes, with a specific focus on agriculture, deforestation, energy and marine conservation. The film not only presents how all of these issues are currently contributing to climate change and biodiversity loss, but also offers solutions based around each of these issues to ensuring a safe and sustainable future for our planet and its people. The film provides an opportunity for us all to respond and create change in the world for our future generation.
Our Bucks Food revolution panel shared there thoughts, inspiration and call for action as well as take your questions.
Hannah Fenton - Sustain Bucks Food Partnership / Hannah co-ordinates the Buckinghamshire Food Partnership project for Sustain. The aim of the project is to establish the appetite for a Bucks food partnership, providing the framework to generate and support local action to improve the food system. This is building on the Sustainable Food Cities model, but in the context of a whole county and a largely rural setting. Hannah lives in Oxford, where she is a Director of the apple juice business Tiddly Pommes, making single-variety heritage apple juice from fruit in Oxfordshire that would otherwise go to waste. She managed Good Food Oxford, Oxfordshire’s food partnership, for nearly 5 years; and she event manages the Oxford Real Farming Conference. She grew up in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
Lucy Antal - Feedback Global / Lucy is the North West project manager for Feedback Global’s Regional Food Economy, developing new networks of sustainable food projects and promoting a circular economy approach to food surplus - using it to feed people, animals and the soil, with a particular focus on the North West of England. Through experimenting, education and advocacy, Lucy is designing and implementing innovative actions using food as the catalyst for social change via the Alchemic Kitchen to support easy access to fresh food for all.
Garth Clark Estate Manager- Waddesdon Estate / Garth has worked on estates in all areas of the UK, from Scotland to the Cotswolds, Somerset, Kent, and now Buckinghamshire, building on his formative years in practical agriculture. His farming background and organic experience provides him with an unique land management perspective and for him there has never been a better time to capture best practice knowledge from all over the world, investigate, utilise and merge results with cutting edge technology and traditional farming techniques. Monitoring and developing soil health is always his starting point from which to assess and regenerate farming systems and the land: our natural assets should be best managed for ecology, profitability and beauty.
John Shaw- Chiltern Rangers / John has led Chiltern Rangers since we spun out from Wycombe District Council in Sept 2013. Setting up a new social enterprise has been something of a learning curve, which in reality more closely resembles the north face of the Eiger than a curve especially in those early years. Chiltern Rangers works with communities to provide practical habitat management in Bucks and the wider Chilterns. We manage 13 nature reserves for Wycombe District Council and help a range of conservation and local authority partners with habitat management in their woodlands, chalk grassland, commons, ponds and chalk streams. This is all achieved with the help of volunteers - people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds, plus community organisations, charities, social enterprises, schools, colleges and other partners all have key roles too
This workshop forms part of the collection of sessions for the Bucks Food Revolution! online event that took place on the 21st & 22nd November 2020. A program of exciting and unusual events exploring our relationship with food, from foraging berries in the outdoors, to waste-saving tips and recipes, to a deep dive into how we can work together to protect nature and our planet. We will be hearing from local experts and enthusiasts on growing food, understanding how what you eat affects your health and well-being; as well as discussing the pitfalls of food waste and how to avoid them at home
We are grateful to all those helping Feedback Global's Food Citizens project to deliver this event