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Onions donated to Winter Comfort Cafe: Food 4 Food

Winston at Food 4 Food  When we heard about the fantastic Food4Food cafe run by local Cambridge charity Winter Comfort, we knew they’d be a perfect place to donate some onions! With their base at  St Andrews Hall, Chesterton , they serve lunch form Mon – Fri, and also do catering. From their website: “WinterComfort supports those who are homeless or at risk of losing their homes by offering basic amenities, opportunities for educational development and recreation, and a range...
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Onions donated to local Cambridge charity Emmaus

We’re busy these days donating our onions to local charities. Having had a great time at Foodcycle last weekend, I dropped off 20 kg of lovely onions at Emmaus today. Sure the chefs there will cook up a treat for everyone in the Emmaus Landbeach community! Mel at Emmaus posing with onions! Enjoy them! As well as being a fab second hand shop, Emmaus does great work providing jobs for previously homeless people. Check out their website and...
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Lambing time, planning time

We had a quick visit to the farm this Saturday, and ended up feeding a young lamb. Lovely! There are more ewes sheltering in the polytunnel that are waiting to give birth.We need to use the onions left in the store as quickly as possible now, so we bagged up some more to distribute to local charities this week.Then we sat down to plan this year’s Cropshare- I’ll give you more details as soon...
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Great onion feast at Cambridge Foodcycle

Busy lunchtime- serving up the pea and onion omelette So what did Foodcycle create with our onions?  I joined in the brilliant Foodcycle team this Saturday to cook up about 15kg of our lovely onions, harvested Sept 2011 by our hardworking volunteers. With piles of donated food from local businesses, and our onions, the head chef Sam had lots to play with. Check out Sam being interviewed on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire here (starts at 1 hour 50...
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