The people featured in this playlist are local food and drink producers working in Lancashire. Most of us take their work for granted. Few of us now plant seeds and harvest what grows from them; or raise, then butcher, an animal.  But we depend on the people who do. Without them, we literally couldn’t survive, because we all have to eat.

When we pick up a milk carton, or a bag of potatoes, we see ‘things’, not people. We don’t often acknowledge or value those who make our survival possible. These interviews form part of the Faces Behind Our Food project which  enables us to see and hear the faces and voices behind our food, the work that they do, and to understand that the issues affecting them are ones that affect us all:
- Maintaining relationships with friends, family and wider communities
- Making a living in a world where our income is being constantly driven down
- The satisfaction of creating ‘by hand’ versus the pressure to industrialise to bring down costs
- Governmental regulations and political decisions
- Local and global trade conditions
- Climate change

‘Sustainability’ could sum up all of this, but it’s become such a buzzword it doesn’t really mean much anymore. Understanding the context of food production makes it come to life again.

To see the exhibition in full visit: 
www.lessuk.org/blog/the-faces-behind-our-food/

WILLIAM BEADON – THORNTON MEADOW MUSHROOMS

AMANDA GORTON – MANSERGH HALL FARM

GARY TROUGHTON – DOLPHINHOLME HONEY

FELICITY (FIL) DUIRWYN – FILBERT’S BAKERY

ALAN SCHOFIELD – GROWING WITH NATURE

RAY EDMONDSON – EDMONDSONS FRESH FISH

SHARON PEACOCK – COCKERHAM BOERS

SPUD CLUB – CLAVER HILL COMMUNITY FOOD PROJECT

WILLIAM HOWARD – BILLY’S EGGS

BRUCE CROWTHER - THE FIG TREE

STEPH - STEPHENSONS DAIRY

The Faces Behind Our Food

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