Author: Zoe Parker

Join an Apple Day Near You

By Zoe Parker

Published 5th September 2025

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but they are also good for the planet. So let’s get juicing!

Apple Day is an annual celebration of apples and orchards. From the start, Apple Day was intended to be both a celebration and a demonstration of the variety we are in danger of losing, not simply in apples, but in the richness and diversity of landscape, ecology and culture too.

It traditionally falls on 21 October, the date of the first such event in 1990 set up by Common Ground, but events happen throughout September and October

Thanks to Leeds Urban Harvest and Fruit Works Co-operative we have apple pressing and juicing equipment available to hire or borrow in Leeds and Bradford. As a result many local community hubs, allotments and other outdoor spaces can hold public and private Apple Days.

There are 100+ fruit orchards  in Leeds and this great system we have where people can rent or borrow juicing equipment means lots of home-grown apples  that would otherwise go to waste, get picked,  juiced, eaten and stored, saving much food waste.

Your Autumn 2025 line up of Apple Days in Leeds and beyond.

 

14 September The Chemic Apple Pressing  2pm – a family friendly public event. Bring along your apples for pressing Arrive from 11am to help sort apples.

17 September Keighley Apple day at Yorgreen CIC with Fruitworks

21 September Horsforth Climate Action Green Festival

23 September St Vincents from 1.30pm

26 September Community Apple Pressing at Rainbow Junktion – All Hallows Church – volunteers needed 11-5pm

27 September Seacroft Forest Garden Apple day

27 September Apple Day with  Incredible Edible Belle Isle 10.30am & 1.30pm

4 October Apple Day Heart in Headingley 11-4 pm

4 October Skipton Apple Day 2025 at Middletown allotments

5 October Hollybush Apple Day

5 October Harehills Community Orchard 1-3pm

11 October  Headingley Farmers’ Market 

12 October Bradford Apple day

16 October Meanwood Valley Urban Farm  4-11 pm

18 October Oakwood Farmers’ Market

18 October  Apple Day Hyde Park Source 12-4pm

25 October Apple Day at REAP

26 October Apple Day Heaton Allotments, Bradford

 

Check out a fuller list on Leeds Urban Harvest schedule or get in touch with Fruit Works  for their Apple day events. See links below.

Read More about Fruit Works Co-operative
Read More about Leeds Urban Harvest
Let’s share the abundance

Browse our website for more Healthy, Sustainable and Fair Food Solutions including:

Apple Power  Read more about the great work being done in  Leeds and Bradford with apples.

Incredible Edible sites map Pick up some free veg at one of their 20 groups, 70 sites and 150 raised beds across the city in public spaces.

Veg Box Schemes – two local ones are Meanwood Urban Valley Farm. Leeds Veg Box. Discover more about Indie Local Food Busnesses in the Indie Directory

Leeds Food Aid Map  Find 140+ pantries, cafes and food aid busnesses if you need emergency food.

Leeds Good Food Map Discover Little Veg Libraries, Farmers Markets, Community gardens and lots more.

Download the Family Food and Wellbeing Leaflet
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Apple Power

By Zoe Parker

Published 30th August 2025

Bradford is juicing up fresh solutions to the Cost-of-Living and Climate Crises

Tonnes of  apples go to waste all over Bradford District. Fruit Works Co-operative have established a coordinated juicing equipment library and service that diverts these surplus apples to four communities hubs.

This year, in autumn 2025, the project is supported by Fruit Works, but going forward it will be a self-funding enterprise for the four community hubs in Keighley, Shipley and Bradford. There are 4 ways the equipment can be used, depending on your needs.

Juice it yourself
Juice it for Fun
Juice it for you
Juice it with you.

Juice It Yourself
You borrow the kit for yourself, your family, friends, street or community group to make your own juice.

Juice It For Fun
The kit is used as part of a Community Apple Day, where people come together to celebrate the harvest.

Juice It For You
You bring your apples to one of the community hubs and they press them and bottle the juice for you.

Juice It With You
You bring your apples to one of the community hubs to make your own juice there, with their equipment.

Read More about Fruit Works Bradford

In Leeds with Leeds Urban Harvest  we are lucky enough to juice it up across the city.

Like Bradford, each year, thousands of fruit trees across Leeds go unpicked or unused because their owners can’t harvest them or there is too much fruit to use at one time.

Leeds Urban Harvest is a volunteer run community project that lends picking and processing equipment to groups to make juice from their excess apples.

Because there are more apples than people to juice them they also press and make use of surplus fruit donated by people, which would otherwise go to waste.

Four ways you can get involved in Leeds and fight the Cost-of-Living and Climate Crises

Pick It and Bring It.

Got surplus Apples ? Tell us about them here

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Juice It for Fun

Come to an Apple Day! More about events here

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Borrow It 

Rent our equipment. Tell us about them here

Learn It with Us.

Learn how to press, juice and more by volunteering here

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Let’s share the abundance

Browse our website for more Cost-of-Living and Climate Crisis solutions including:

Leeds Food Aid Map  Find 140+ pantries, cafes and food aid businesses if you need emergency food.

Healthy Holidays  More about Healthy Holidays ( HAF) recently funded for the next three years! Read more.

Healthy Start  Go to this page for information on Healthy Start and for  links to other Family Food and Wellbeing services such as free school meals and uniform, money and welfare advice and more.

Incredible Edible sites map (who have 20 groups, 70 sites and 150 raised beds across the city offering free vegetable, fruit and herbs to the public and other

Download the Family Food and Wellbeing Leaflet
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Good Food Cycle Launches

By Zoe Parker

Published 18th August 2025

Introducing the ‘Good Food Cycle’, a fresh recipe for a healthier nation! 

The government has served up its new “Good Food Cycle” today (15 July) – a recipe aimed at driving a generational change in the nation’s relationship with food.

Here’s a taste of what they are proposing:

  • A vibrant food landscape promoting healthier and more sustainable food sales
  • Access for all to safe, affordable, healthy, convenient and appealing food options.
  • Conditions for the food sector to thrive and grow sustainably, including investment in innovation and productivity, and fairer more transparent supply chains.
Read full press release - Good Food Cycle
Read Sustainable Food Places Response

We are pleased to say that Leeds is one of over 100 network members of Sustainable Food and Places (SFP) and as a local food partnership, we are already driving many locally-rooted food initiatives. We were recently mentioned in  a recent SFP report highlighting the local force for climate action. You can read more about this in the report here.

SFP brings together pioneering food partnerships from towns, cities, boroughs, districts and counties across the UK that are driving innovation and best practice on all aspects of healthy and sustainable food. Sustainable Food Places is a partnership programme led by the Soil Association, Food Matters, Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, Food Sense Wales, Nourish NI, and Nourish Scotland.

Browse our website for one of the many food initiatives and campaigns happening across the city from Just One More to the Food Aid Map to the pioneers in our Good Food Stories.

Download Report

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Veg Sales hit a 50-year low!

By Zoe Parker

Published 25th June 2025

Veg Sales Have Fallen to its Lowest Level in 50 Years

The amount of vegetables bought by households in the UK has fallen to its lowest level in 50 years. Vegetable consumption remains unequal, with lower-income households buying significantly less, a trend worsened by the cost of living crisis. Surveys reveal many households, especially those with lower incomes, are buying fewer vegetables. Despite this, Peas Please pledgers have sold 1.1 billion extra portions of veg since 2017.

Read the full article here

As part of the Leeds Good Food Action Plan, FoodWise Leeds delivers the Just One More campaign, which is in its fourth successful year.

The idea of eating five portions of fruits and vegetables a day can be overwhelming for many people. So with our campaign, we aim to meet people where they’re at. The campaign provides encouragement and inspiration to add ‘just one more’ portion of vegetables to their meals every day.

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Just One More is a local campaign to encourage people across Leeds to eat ‘Just One More’ portion of vegetables every day as a snack or in their meals. This is our fourth year of the campaign.

All resources to support the campaign can be downloaded from the Just One More page in the Healthy Food section of our website. If you want to be inspired to eat Just One More, you can also check out our Recipe hub for lots of exciting recipes.

Community Composting Talk

By Zoe Parker

Published 13th May 2025

Join the Feed Leeds meeting in Killingbeck.

We are really lucky in Leeds to host some brilliant composting projects. Come along Wednesday 21 May at 4pm to hear about them. Pick up tips for composting at home or with your community gardening group. Join Feed Leeds hosted by Killingbeck Orchard for a meeting to learn about these innovative composting methods and their benefits for your daily life. Whether you are planning to composting at home, or as part of a community group,  you’ll gain valuable tips and techniques.

Let’s enrich our soil, reduce food waste, and support biodiversity together.

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Presenters include:

Sol from Leeds Blue Marble who will talk about Bokashi Composting

Annie from Compost Collective Leeds talking about Community Composting.

When? Wednesday 21st May, 4pm

Where?  Killingbeck Orchard, Back Storey Place, LS14 6AW

Parking is available within 300-400 yards walking distance from the site, plus parking (for 2 or 3 cars) within 20 yards of the entrance on Watson Road

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Taking a bite into Food Stories

By Zoe Parker

Published 14th April 2025

Take a Bite out of This is a delicious slice of chat about food and what it means for friends, family & communities. It Airs on East Leeds Community Radio at Community Arts Centre Chapel FM and it happens Tuesday at 3pm on week 4 of the month.

Take a Bite Out of This offers sumptuous conversations about food, baking, cooking and what food means for friends, family and communities.

In this episode they talked with Elaine Barrow & Sonja Woodcock from Zest and FoodWise Leeds. They chatted all about the Food Stories project we recently ran.

Sonja and Elaine also talked about seasonal recipes, food systems & who influenced their cooking growing up. And interestingly, it seems that Dad’s as well as mother’s influenced their early cooking experiences. Take a listen here:

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More about Food Stories Project.

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Food Stories is a project run by Zest over 6 months bringing people together through the power of food. It was a simple premise – use the universal language of food to bring communities together to talk and eat.

Over the course of three 4-week programs, residents met in local places, experienced new activities and ways of talking with one another and  savoured delicious healthy food that was being offered right on their doorstep. This brought discoveries of new recipes and sharing of knowledge around food. Hunslet Moor Club’s world cookery club embarked on a flavourful Jamaica cooking, learning the art of healthy eating along the way. For one budding chef, this was the first step on a delicious path to a cookery course and a career in the culinary arts. A trip to Meanwood Valley Farm further cemented the bonds between participants, proving the power of food to unite and inspire.

A heartfelt thank-you to all involved who embraced this initiative with open arms and eager taste buds. Here’s to many more Food Stories in our communities!

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Heard of Carlin Sunday?

By Zoe Parker

Published 25th March 2025

We recently had a discussion in our local community about Carlin peas, a type of traditional northern mushy peas. A few people shared memories of “Carlin Sunday,” a special day dedicated to these peas, which falls on April 6 this year. This tradition is particularly popular in northern England, where Carlin peas, also known as black peas or black badgers, are enjoyed.

One person recalled celebrating Carlin Sunday in the 1970s in Batley, traditionally on the fifth Sunday in Lent, which again falls in April this year. Others remembered eating these flavorful peas with a ham bone during Bonfire Night celebrations in the 1970s.

Inspired by these stories, we’re excited to highlight this traditional ingredient and encourage you to try them. Carlin peas have been grown in Britain for centuries, though they are not as widely known today. They offer a creamy, nutty, and slightly sweet taste and can be a nutritious addition to your meals. They are economical, have a long shelf life of 6-12 months, and are ideal for sprouting. Here are some suggestions for cooking them, places where you might find them, and reasons why they deserve a place in your kitchen. Why not give them a try this Carlin Sunday?

Hodmedods say:

“Why on earth aren’t these beauties in every kitchen cupboard?!’ Was definitely our first thought when we started cooking with them – let’s put that right”

“And with just one spoon from the jar – seriously, they taste like banging old school mushy peas – we truly think you’ll be convinced. Give them a go!” – Bold Bean Co

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Buy directly from Holland and Barrett stores nationwide. You can also buy them ready prepared by Bold Bean Co’s Queen Carlin Peas at @waitrose or direct from @hodmedods. You can find lots of carlin pea recipes and ideas about ways you can use carlin peas in the Useful Links section. Enjoy Carlin peas in hummus, stews, or with your fish and chips.

Northern Seed Sovereignty in partnership with Middlesbrough Environment City, are hosting an afternoon devoted to this special pea, which is significant to Middlesborough. They’ll be cooking with it, eating it, and growing it and sharing stories of its history in the north east of England. For those of you based or visiting Middlesborough, you can book your ticket to ‘Carlin Wednesday’ using this link. This event is a collaborative activity between the Gaia Foundation‘s Seed Sovereignty Programme and Middlesbrough Environment City and is part of the Northern Pulse Collaboration.

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#NorthernPulseCollaboration is a brilliant collaborative project that’s looking at growing, cooking and eating more pulse crops across the region -including the amazing Carlin Peas. Find out more here.

Share the pulse love!  Can you use your networks and
connectedness to spread the message far and wide? 

Let’s build a pulse movement! Will you celebrate Carlin Sunday? Let us know in the comments!

Celebrating the Women in Leeds’ Food Scene.

By Zoe Parker

Published 7th March 2025

International Women’s Day is the perfect occasion to celebrate some incredible women in Leeds’ food scene! From researchers and chefs to innovative business owners, here are 12 remarkable women driving positive and local change in the Good Food Movement.

(1) Jade Crawley, Head Chef at Fearns Leeds Dock , previously at head chef at Eat Your Greens and before that cheffing at the Wild Plum, who talks to Anna Schindler about the kitchens she worked in where toxic masculinity was oppressive. Read the full article.

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“My advice to other women… people can tolerate a lot of unacceptable things and you don’t have to put up with it. You may have to look a little further, but you can find kitchens where people are treated fairly. Read, go on stages, volunteer your time and lift the curtains on what happens in other people’s kitchens. Inspiration can come from anywhere.” – Jade Crawley, Head Chef at Fearns Leeds Dock.

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(2) Manjit Kaur of Manjit’s Kitchen who has been named one of the 100 most influencial women in hospitality by CODE, who described her as a chef owner who has made a mark on the city’s Punjabi food scene. Manjit is open hearted, resilient and rooted in her community, whilst also helping to give other women a leg up and into work.

 

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(3) Amy Wright – As the founder of Nell’s Urban Greens and Farm Microgreens UK, Amy grows these tiny plants in multiple varieties for her local community whilst inspiring a new generation of microgreens farmers – all from her back-garden grow house in East Leeds. READ MORE

(4) Sonja Woodcock is the food partnership coordinator for Leeds who has been striving for decades to build a healthy, sustainable, fair food system for everyone in Leeds. See article below from independent researcher and writer Gemma Bridge.

(5) Season Well CIC, aka Viv & Becky, have been helping people have a go at growing for over 7 years. Through classes and food growing and cooking projects, they’ve been sharing the love and joy of delicious, seasonal food across Leeds.

(6) Ali Morpeth of Planeatery Alliance is driving transformative change in food systems. Read More

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https://leedsliving.co.uk/city-living/in-conversation-with-sonja-woodcock-leeds-food-partnership/
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(6) Ali Morpeth – Co-Founder Planeatry Alliance | Building a better food future for people + planet | Bridging the gap between sustainability and health to drive transformative change in food systems.

(7) Anna Shindler, the culinary genius behind Food With View, is a chef and writer, writing about Women in food. We highly recommend her vegetarian catering – it’s simple and delicious! You can taste for yourself at the upcoming Yoga Brunch at Leftbank Leeds. Meanwhile, why not check out their blog!

(8) Award-winning Emmanuelle Metz, of Metz Cheesemonger at Sunny Bank Mills, who emphasises artisan cheese for superior taste and quality.

(9)Tanalans, led by Tanya Cusan, an occasional supper club, offers a delightful vegetarian supper club inspired by her Colombian roots—think empanadas, frijoles, and vibrant seasonal salads straight from her allotment!

(10) Julie Nutchie of Bilberry Bee has over 35 years experience in the food industry and grows organic fruits and veggies right from her garden.

(11) Maureen Wilkes, opened Maureen’s Caribbean Food in Harehills in 2003—a community treasure amidst shifting eateries serving authentic Caribbean cuisine.

(12) Dr Effie Papargyropoulou is pioneering research into sustainable food systems for global food security while respecting our planet’s limits.

There are many other brilliant women working in Leeds’ Food Scene. Who would you love to shine a light on? Let us know in the comments!

 

Compost Collective Latest News

By Zoe Parker

Published 26th February 2025

Delighted to announce, Compost Collective Leeds (CCL) won the best community composting award at the Feed Leeds Food Growing Awards. Congratulations to Annie Whitehead, for all of her hard work and achieving so much.

Compost Collective Armley is coming soon to Charlie Cake Park (officially called Whingate Park). This will be the tenth Compost Collective scheme across Leeds. This means we have achieved one of our big milestones, as Food Transition Partner for Climate Action Leeds. Now that’s something to shout about! Want to get involved? Get in touch with Armley Common Rights Trust or Climate Action Armley.

Inspiration Nursery have almost filled their second compost bin and are really excited about how much food waste they have diverted from landfill and the future free soil they are producing for their raised beds in the school gardens. And there’s more! Horsforth Community Compost Collective got the go ahead from Leeds City Council to build more composting bins on public land.

 

And the numbers are in for 2024: Didn’t we do well!


1,963 kgs of material was diverted from landfill.

We set up 7 new schemes, worked with 11 new organisations and built 19 compost bins.

We trained 110 volunteers (and 96 are still active!)

 

 

Raise your pulses this 2025

By Zoe Parker

Published 24th February 2025

We’ve got our finger on the pulse this Winter. Read on to find out all our healthy, sustainable and fair food news.

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Power to the Pulses – We are on a mission to get people eating more pulses. Think fish and chips with a side of mushy peas, or the more recent menu additions like dhal and hummus. These little powerhouses boost your health, help our planet, and ease the strain on your wallet too! Read more about pulses and we have our finger on the pulse: Celebrating Pulses and Northern England has it’s finger on the pulse.
 

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Please join GFEI’s upcoming webinar by Dr Andy Newing, School of Geog. Andy will deliver a webinar exploring if online groceries and branded convenience stores help alleviate contemporary food deserts (neighbourhoods lacking good access to fresh, healthy and affordable food).

Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neighbourhood-inequalities-in-access-to-food-stores-tickets-1106183036239?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Traditional Food Markets – In the UK eight supermarkets currently control 95% of the grocery market (Kantar World Panel), yet traditional food markets have potential to contribute to a more sustainable and equitable food system addressing pressing issues like the cost-of-living crisis and climate change. Prof Sara Gonzalez explores how a new research project advocates for public policies that can expand the region’s ‘right to food’ here.


 

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Love is in the Pulses – We are interested in raising pulses in our communities. World Pulses Day is celebrated on February 10th each year. It’s an international day that recognises the importance of pulses for health, sustainable living and you can get involved by going to FAO website. Or Check out this informative article from The Food Foundation and from FAO on the Power of Pulses.

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Support Community Composting!
A huge thank you to Annie Whitehead for her outstanding efforts in promoting community composting in Leeds. Annie is also the 2025 winner of BEST COMPOSTING in Feed Leeds Growing Awards.

She also took on the challenge of weighing all her food waste before composting it over a year, diverting 115 kg from one household! Imagine the impact if every household did this. Want to support similar projects? If you can, please consider donating and/ or sharing with your networks via this link.
 

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Share, Eat and Celebrate Good Food:
Feed Leeds had their annual celebration at Meanwood Farm to celebrate local food growing heroes with their Local Food Growing Awards presentations this week. It was a great evening for networking and learning about food growing projects across Leeds, accompanied by a delicious meal. A little film about Get Growing Leeds here:

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International Women’s Day 2025
Celebrate International Women’s Day with the classic Palestinian dish Maqluba (vegan option available) whilst watching the film ‘Bye Bye Tiberias’ made by Lina Soualem as part of Leeds Palestinian Festival at HEART Centre Leeds on 7 Mar 6pm. More info here.

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Food Stories
This February why not come together to talk over food? Food Stories is a free community project in Leeds designed to bring people together through the power of food. Funded by Tracy Brabin and West Yorkshire Combined Authority, and Leeds City Council, and delivered by the Leeds-based charity Zest. Read more here about the Meanwood project.

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‘Good Samaritan Laws and Surplus Food – A Solution in Need of a Problem?’

The Global Food and Environment Institute (GFEI) invites you to their February 2025 webinar.
Redistributing surplus food minimizes waste and addresses food insecurity. Since 2015, the UK has tripled its efforts, yet much potential remains untapped due to “fear of liability” among donors concerning recipient health.

 Register for free on Eventbrite.
 

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Not your Average Corner Shop

A shout out to Eat Your Greens and Greens Grocer. It is the newly opened grocers in the Climate Innovation District down by Leeds Dock. They champion fresh organic healthy produce available in the UK. And while you are down there, why not check out Pig Love and Fearns. 
 They love to showcase incredible organic veg and other locally sourced products.

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Want a Super Fresh Veg Box?

Ever fancied having a super-fresh, chemical-free veg box every week, from an actual farm? Join the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) scheme where you, the eaters, are directly supporting the food growers and local food in the community.

There are schemes you can join locally at Meanwood Valley Farm and Kirkstall Valley Farm

Why not give it a go?

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Courses at Leeds Cookery School – The new year is here, and so is Leeds Cookery School’s exciting line-up of cookery classes that promise to tantalise your taste buds. 

Leeds Cookery School have a range of brilliant courses. We really liked the look of their Street Food Express: Dim Sum class. 

Why not book a class for a friend or loved one?

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Lunch Club from Eat Your Greens – Is February the new January? Eat Your Greens think so, and are keeping a bit of that January spirit alive to help us all power through with Lunch Club – 2 for £15 on selected plates every Thursday and Friday between 12 and 3pm. Eat Your Greens create delicious and sustainably prepared dishes, supporting local organic producers because, (in their own words) it’s good for the planet, good for you and good for the farmers that grow it.

Let’s give them some love!


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Cooking with Pulses – Did you know that pulses count as one of your five -a-day? So why not add more pulses like beans, peas and lentils to your tea? Like one of these carlin peas recipes from Hodemedods, whose pulses and grains are British-grown – and always will be!

Find more recipes with peas, beans and other pulses in the recipes section of our website. Got your own great recipe with pulses? Add it to our recipes so we can share with others.

World Pulses Day

By Zoe Parker

Published 5th February 2025

World Pulses Day is celebrated on February 10th each year. It’s an international day that recognises the importance of pulses, which are the edible seeds of legumes.

What are pulses?

Pulses, also known as legumes, are the edible seeds of leguminous plants cultivated for food. Dried beans, lentils and peas are the most commonly known and consumed types of pulses.
Staples dishes and cuisines from across the world feature pulses, from hummus in the Mediterranean (chick peas), to a traditional full English breakfast (baked navy beans) to Indian dal (peas or lentils).
For centuries, pulses have been vital to sustainable agriculture and nutrition. These small but impactful crops not only provide essential nutrients but also support healthier diets and resilient farming systems, making them a key source of nourishment even for the most vulnerable communities, contributing on leaving no one behind.Many grow in the UK. They are high in protein, low in fat, and rich in soluble fiber. Pulses can be served as standalone dishes, or incorporated into sauces, spreads, desserts, and as toppings. They count as one of your five-a-day and can be added as #JustOneMore veg to help you eat a healthy diet.

 

 

Why celebrate pulses?

To increase public awareness of the nutritional and environmental benefits of pulses
To recognise the potential of pulses to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
To acknowledge the role of pulses in increasing global food security, building soil health, and diversifying agricultural systems. More information at FAO [Click link for Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations]: https://www.fao.org/world-pulses-day/en

Did you know?

Pulses increase farm biodiversity and create a richer landscape for animals and insects to thrive.
The nitrogen-fixing properties of pulses can improve soil fertility, which improves and extends the productivity of farmland.
Pulses are highly water efficient: for producing 1 kg of lentils needs 1250 liters, while 1 kg of beef requires 13,000 liters.


How can you celebrate World Pulses Day?

Learn more about the nutritional and environmental benefits of pulses
Try eating more pulses in your meals
Support the production and consumption of pulses

Feed Leeds Celebration 2025

By Zoe Parker

Published 5th February 2025

Join Feed Leeds to share, eat and celebrate local food growing.

Feed Leeds AGM Celebration is on Monday, 24 February, from 5.30-8.30pm at the beautiful Meanwood Valley Urban Farm

Why Attend?

Enjoy a shared meal with fellow food enthusiasts (included in your ticket!)

Celebrate and connect with the amazing community of local food growers

Learn about exciting projects and initiatives happening in our area

Grab Your Tickets Today!

Tickets are just £9.38, and they’re selling fast!

Secure your spot by clicking here: [Buy Tickets](https://shorturl.at/BtJep) or simply scan the QR code in the image.

Let’s celebrate the people and projects that are local growing #goodfoodstories and make a vital contribution to our communities across Leeds. We can’t wait to see you there!