Regenerative Kitchen

The modern food system based on industrial agriculture and large multi-national corporations is broken. Most of us shop at one of the larger supermarkets, making choices about what we put in our trolleys without realising that many of the choices about what we eat have already been taken for us. Global corporations including the supermarkets control what crop farmers across the globe grow and how they grow them. Two seed companies control 40% of the commercial seed market, severely restricting the varieties of seeds available to farmers and as a consequence reducing what we are able to buy and eat. The food system we live with is not run for the benefit of us as consumers or even for the famers, growers and producers across the globe, it is run to make profit. The consequences of this race to line shareholders pockets are well-documented, from human health issues such as obesity, diabetes, allergies and heart disease to environmental catastrophes such as pollution, soil degradation, deforestation, desertification, water depletion and the crash in biodiversity.

But, a different system is possible.

Every day we make choices about what to eat and these choices have the potential to initiate changes in our food system. We have more power than we think! Shifting our buying habits away from the supermarkets to local producers, choosing to eat seasonally, opting for wholefoods rather than processed foods and aiming to buy as much organic produce as possible will not only benefit our own health but helps to support producers who sit outside the industrialised system. Everyone can make a change, even if it is only a small change to begin with, and we are here to show you how!