Love Local Food

On running a mobile shop

Once not so long ago people say that shops on wheels were part of our lives. A hoot of the horn or a ring of the bell and you knew to come out to buy your vegetables or fruit or fish. Maybe even have a chat to a neighbour. Well that's what people say.

More recently and it is likely that it is solitary chimes of the ice cream van that you will hear and the sight of supermarket liveried delivery trucks dashing up and down the road full of freshly clicked food miles.

If you do meet a true mobile shop then do take a moment to pass the time of day as, speaking from daily...

Exeter Lives: Penny Nicholson

Name: Penny Nicholson

And what do you do?

I'm a web designer and food blogger. I run a local food order and collect scheme with Shillingford Organics and the Hub on the Green and am a volunteer with Transition Exeter. I have also just created the Exeter Trails website ( www.exetertrails.co.uk ) and have lots of ideas for its further development to really put independent business on the map!

How would you describe yourself in 5 words?

Happy to live in South West

How would you describe Exeter in 5 words?

Lovely, friendly, unique,...

Love Local Food Winter Food Fair: Sat 15th Dec 2012

Event Date: 
15/12/2012 - 9:30am to 4:30pm
Venue: 
The Hub on the Green, 8 Cathedral Close, Exeter

Love Local Food are holding a Winter Food Fair on Saturday 15 December at the Hub on the Green, Cathedral Close, Exeter from 9.30am – 4.30pm. The event celebrates and showcases many of the local producers and farmers who supply the Love Local Food mobile shop and contribute to the exciting programme of education events.

Love Local Food's Winter Food Fair will be transforming The Hub on the Green into a 'festive food hall' celebrating the very best in produce from the local area. Regulars to Love Local Food's mobile shop, which supplies communities in Exeter and...

Love Local Food's Winter Food Fair at The Hub

Love Local Food are holding a Winter Food Fair on Saturday 15th December at the Hub on the Green, Cathedral Close, Exeter from 9.30am – 4.30pm. The event celebrates and showcases many of the local producers and farmers who supply the Love Local Food mobile shop and contribute to the exciting programme of education events.

Love Local Food's Winter Food Fair will be transforming The Hub on the Green into a 'festive food hall' celebrating the very best in produce from the local area. Regulars to Love Local Food's mobile shop, which supplies communities in Exeter...