About Real Food

The Real Food Festival selects the best small producers it can find and subsidises their attendance, giving them a fabulous opportunity to grow their businesses and offering visitors a one to one introduction to Britain’s real food heroes.

This is increasingly important as recognition grows that ‘business as usual’ is not an option as far as food production is concerned and that the major issues of climate change, population growth, water scarcity and peak oil mean that food security is now firmly on the agenda at the highest governmental levels.

The Real Food Festival is addressing these issues head-on by suggesting an alternative to the current, industrialised systems of agriculture, food manufacture and distribution. With an existing food system that has evolved to be a generator of profits rather than a system to feed people, the Real Food Festival promotes a different approach that aims to feed people good, seasonal, nutritionally-dense food and drink that has been produced in a sustainable and ethical way.

There is a growing desire to learn more about the provenance of our food and The Real Food Festival is the perfect place to connect with over 400 producers of some of the most wonderful food and drink you will find anywhere. By tapping into this alternative system of more localised food production and by increasing our consumption of more traditional, seasonal and nutritionally-dense food we can enjoy a host of benefits ranging from health, through to benefits for the environment, animal welfare, bio-diversity and the simple basic pleasure of enjoying delicious wholesome food.

Our simple idea is to re-connect people back to where their food comes from and to promote the idea of buying directly from the people who actually produce our food.

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