Third year Urban Geography students have been reflecting on
their personal food waste. This relates to academic work carried out under the
theme of Food and the City. Before visiting Elsie’s Café – Northampton’s RealJunk Food Project, Mr. Andy Fox, a volunteer at Elsie’s, visited the group and
gave a talk on how the project works, and why it came into being. Then, the
students visited the café on Charles St where they had the opportunity to
sample the food and find out more about where the food comes from.
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| Students at Elsie's Café |
Elsie’s Café is one of a network of over 150 such projects
worldwide. Surplus, out of date food, items passed their sell by date, items in
broken packaging etc. are donated from a variety of sources including
supermarkets, restaurants, shops and allotments. Diners pay what they feel
(#PAYF) is appropriate for their meal, money which finances the running of the
kitchen and the café itself. There are now over 100 volunteers involved and the
café is so busy now that they are looking for more volunteers to fill specific
posts such as café manager/organiser. The project instigator Shena Cooper is
looking forward to developing further links with the University. A big thank
you to Elsie’s café for a very warm welcome and for sharing food and drinks
with us – we’ll be back!
For further details
see:
twitter: @elsie_caf
If you would like to
get involved see:
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