Useful links
and resources

SHEFF-Yield sustainable infographics

Below you can find some infographics that our team have created related to sustainable food!

• Why should you grow your own food? We explain it in this handy infographics!

• Do you want to know what are the physical health benefits of growing your own food? Check out our infographics!

• And what are the nutritional benefits of growing your own food you ask? We can help shed some light on that!

• We have also created a calendar indicating when to sow, plant out and harvest the most common types of vegetables in your garden.

How is food related to climate change?

• Cutting Greenhouse Gases From Food Production

• Call for climate tax on meat

• TABLE Debates from food climate research network

• Mapping the UK Food System - this report by the Global Food Security Programme identifies the key actors in the food system, highlighting their activities and motivations, and outlines the health, social, economic and environmental outcomes of the food system.

• A sustainable food system explainer by the Institute for Sustainable Food

• 'Decoding the secret language of soils' webinar by Professor Duncan Cameron, co-director of the Institute for Sustainable Food. Professor Cameron was later joined by our very own Mary Eliza for her talk on 'Can we solve global warming, acid rain and smog all at once?'.

• Recording of a webinar organised by the Grantham Centre PhD students titled 'What lies beneath? The hidden world in soil that feeds our planet'

Tips on harvesting in garden/allotment:

• MYHarvest - an exciting research project led by The University of Sheffield researchers that aims to estimate the contribution people who grow their own fruit and vegetable crops are making to the UK national food production

• A recording of our webinar titled 'Grown in the city' led by Boglarka 'Zilla' Gulyas from MYHarvest

• Some really nice infographics created by Evergreen Garden Care on when it is good to grow and harvest different kinds of vegetables

• You can find lots of organic growing advice on this website by Garden Organic. They also led a webinar for us and you can find a recording of it here - it includes lots of practical tips and advice!

• A recording of our webinar titled 'Growing food in an allotment' which includes practical advice about allotment gardening.

• Most pesticides can pose a risk to humans and animals. For this reason, ConsumerNotice.org have published a guide with organic, homemade, and agricultural alternatives for your garden - you can see the guide here.

Want to learn more about hydroponics?

• Our experts' hydroponics advice/resources

• A recording of our hydroponics webinar

• A recording of our 'Desert Garden' webinar

• Dr Harry Wright's Instructibles article with details on how to build a Dutch bucket hydroponic system

• Dr Harry Wright's Instructibles article with details on how to build an ebb and flow (or flood and drain) hydroponic system

• Grantham Scholar Nicole Kennard's Master's work on 'Evaluation of Recycled Materials as Hydroponic Media'

• Hydroponics for beginners article by Nick Greens. They also have a great video podcast where you'll learn all you need to know about growing microgreens, including an episode about growing microgreens in space!

• Polygreens Podcast (also by Nick Greens) which aims to combat the misleading information about controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) by providing listeners with facts and information about the subject.

• A good summary of what you can grow indoors using hydroponics and when by GroWell, a UK based business that can also provide you with various hydroponics kits

Sheffield Food Banks

• On this link you can find a comprehensive list of food banks in Sheffield, sorted by post code. You can also donate to the Sheffield Foodbank Network or a food bank of your choice which is especially important now during the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Hicks Green Impact team are organising a crowdfunding campaign to donate to local food banks in Sheffield in order to offer some support to food banks working to tackle hunger in our local communities.

• Food Works Sheffield - you can collect surplus boxes from several different locations in Sheffield for a minimum donation of £1. They also cook meals that can be collected from their Sharrow location.

• Foodhall project - community kitchen and public dining space in Sheffield that has been delivering food parcels to people in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two Grantham Centre PhD students volunteer in Foodhall and they gave an interview about their experience.

How is gardening related to wellbeing?

• Gardening for health and wellbeing by Royal Horticulture society

• Research by Miriam Dobson in British Food Journal

• A recording of our webinar on benefits of growing food

How can I use water in a sustainable way?

• Re-using rainwater and greywater by Centre for Alternative Technology

• Role of irrigation : micro-irrigation drip-kits by Jain Irrigation Systems

Where to find locally grown veggies in Sheffield?

Check out these businesses if you are interested in exploring more locally grown fruits and vegies around Sheffield:

• Regather

• Beanies Wholefoods

Please let us know if you know any other local businesses like this that could be added here - or you might even own one!

Urban agriculture

• Jacob Nickles, N8 AgriFood Knowledge Exchange Fellow in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield, explains how COVID-19 has affected the food system and why urban agriculture is important.

• A recording of our 'Grown in the city' webinar

Food recipes from external sources

• On the BOSH! project website, you can find lots of delicious looking plant-based recipes accompanied by handy videos explaining how to cook them.

• Social Pickle’s Quick Guide to Pickling published in Now Then Magazine will tell you all about how to preserve food by pickling it. Social Pickle is a Foodhall project aiming to bring people together to share the joys of foraging, fermenting, pickling and producing. You can follow them on Instagram here.