Walk The Pork - The Inspiration

‘It is a sign of our increasing separation from nature that we are losing sight of where food comes from and how it is produced. The way we buy it adds to this alienation. Food once at the heart of towns & communities, integral to their rhyme & reason is now often found in big boxes on the edge of town’

Says Monty Don is his introduction to From Field to Fork The value of Englands local food webs. A report published last year by The Camapaign for Rural England after a five year project mapping local food webs.

It was this report that provided the inspiration for Walk The Pork this year. Our guests were all part of The Scotts Field Pork Food Map. Each demonstrating that by buying our pork and thus keeping the pound that they spent within their own rural economy they help not only our business and their own but also support employment within the wider economy - in particular tourism which is vitally important to Norfolk.

During the day we asked different businesses and organisations within The Scotts Field Pork 'Food Chain' to talk about the benefits of supporting local food production. Over the next few weeks we will be running a series of blogs highlighting what they had to say.

We hope that you find these blogs both interesting and informative - as always your comments are very welcome. It would be great to get a conversation going about getting back to a position where not only does the shopper know the provenance of the meat or bread that they are buying but also they have a real connection with the person that they are buying from and a genuine understanding of how the food that they eat is produced.