Who are we?

Eat the Change is being run by volunteers from Bristol, Brighton and Canterbury. We all believe passionately in the need for food to play a more positive role in the health of communities and the environment.

Mark Boyle - lives in Bristol and is the founder of The Freeconomy Community (www.justfortheloveofit.org). He has been eating this way, and without a bin, for over 5 months and is still alive the last we heard. If you want an insight into why he first began this ‘Transition Experiment’ you can follow his progress long term in ‘Resurgence’ magazine.

Beth Tilston lives in Brighton and has been following a ‘hundred mile diet’ for nearly three months now.  You can follow her progress at www.betheatslocal.org.  Beth is the proud owner of some sourdough starter and several industrial sized bags of flour, so if you live near Brighton, she’s your woman on the bread front.

Fergus Drennan (aka Fergus the Forager) finds the whole debate on sustainable foods quite mind boggling, the stress of trying to juggle with ones own hierarchy of values baffling: what is my carbon footprint if I eat this or that? Sustainability-wise, is it better to eat local nonorganic over airfreighted organic?  Is it better to buy nonorganic local food from green grocers or UK organic food from supermarkets? He thinks that returning to basics, that is, foraging, might be one answer and that, even if it isn’t, the act of foraging itself provides an intimately connective and radical sense of place; a place that is consequently suffused with deeper value and meaning; a place worth fighting for. He will be putting up foraging tips, plant lists and recipes as well as running a free September wild food walk in Bristol with The Selfsufficient-ish Bible’s Andy and Dave Hamilton.  He is planning to live on nothing but foraged food for an entire year.

Frances - the woman who keeps us all on our toes and pole dancer extraordinaire!

Claire Milne - another Bristolian, Claire promotes sustainable food issues with various hats on, inclusing Sustainable Food Coordinator at Bristol City Council and coordinating Bristol Food Hub. Before moving to Bristol, Claire worked in London for Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, coordinating their food Poverty Project - during which time she was shortlised for a national campaigning award for her campaigning around supermarkets.