The city of Cardiff has been granted a Gold Sustainable Food Places Award, recognising the success of its joined-up approach to building a sustainable and healthy food system.

The Cardiff Met catering team has retained the maximum three star rating from the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA).

This Sustainable Food Places event, held in Westminster on the 13th November, is set to showcase their networks’ 110+ food partnerships’ nations-wide locally-powered solutions to health inequalities, our struggling economy, and our response to the global climatic crisis. 

An initiative, which aims to make healthy, planet-friendly fruit and veg more accessible and affordable for everyone – especially those facing low incomes and health inequalities – is expanding as it enters the next phase of its development.

Guest Post: By Mill Dessent, co-grower at Coed Organic Market Garden in the Vale of Glamorgan. You can find Coed Organic at Cardiff Farmers Markets during the summer months of the year.

The Cardiff Refill Return Cup scheme – the first-of-its-kind in Wales – will enable Cardiffians to ‘borrow’ a reusable takeaway cup from a participating café and return it at a later date so that it can be washed and used again and again

The Good Food Cardiff Autumn Festival returns from 5– 31 September; community groups, schools, gardens and businesses will run a wide range of events centred around cooking, sharing and growing good food. 

In our latest blog post, we take a look at the pledges that Grounds for Good – a local business repurposing used coffee grounds into a range of food and drink, home and lifestyle products –  has made to support these goals.

On 9 September we are holding our Autumn Food Cardiff network gathering. Anyone with an interest in the city’s good food movement can join the organisations, businesses and individuals who attend.

Orchard Cardiff is a not-for-profit community group based in Cardiff which helps people harvest, share and enjoy locally grown fruit. I

This is your opportunity to showcase and be recognised for your food, cooking or growing activities – or for the work you’ve done for one of the Good Food Cardiff pledges.

In our latest blog post, we take a comprehensive look at the part The Secret Garden Café plays in Cardiff’s Good Food Movement.