Other than veg – where will our grains and proteins come from?

Host: Pippa

Participants: Polly, Amelia, Amanda, John & several others

Main points of discussion:

  • Protein – fish, nuts, meat and dairy, small scale growing, local slaughter house and/or mobile abattoir
  • Eat less meat
  • Look at food combining for optimum nutrition
  • What staples can’t we grow? Rice, bananas, coffee, tea, cocoa
  • But we can grow wheat, corn, barley, rye
  • Investigate possibilities of millet, quinoa, and other less common grains
  • Train our palettes to different tastes
  • Do we need a lot of high protein foods? Maybe not.
  • Nuts – nut orchards in schools, nut projects and training to grow nuts
  • Experiment on allotments and then ask local growers to trial grains

Focus areas:

  • We can grow enough diversity to eat well
  • Teach growing and nutrition in schools
  • Experiment – possibly on a TTL allotment with more unusual crops and if successful approach a local grower and ask them to try on a bigger scale
  • Communication with farmers and growers

Get involved: contact hello [at] TransitionTownLewes.org.uk