Here are a few more food activities for you to try:

Venturers/DFs: campaign to make your town a fair trade town! Visit this Fair Trade website for more info.
www.fairtrade.org.uk/towns/index.htm

Chocolate games
There are two games about injustice in the chocolate trade. One is the Chocolate Game published by Leeds Development Education Centre (Leeds Development Education Centre Roundhay Road Resource Centre, 233-237 Roundhay Road,
Leeds LS8 4HS Tel 0113 3805658) and suitable for 11 year olds up wards. The other is The Chocolate Trading Game published by Christian Aid (Christian Aid, 35 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, London,SE1 7RL, Tel 020 7620 4444), and suitable for 9 – 13 year olds. Both are sold through the Oxfam Education resources catalogue.

Organics resource
You can download a free youth work resource unit about organic food, ‘The Food We Eat’, from the FOE web site.

Organic visit
Find out from the Henry Doubleday Research Association where your nearest local organic grower is. It may be your local urban farm. Arrange a group visit. Try to get there on foot, bike, or public transport!

Compost and worms
See other animals eat what you can’t, reduce your waste, and make compost for a garden by making a wormery – see instructions. Make a group wormery and bring a bit of food for it each week, or everyone could make their own wormeries together over a few group nights.

Fair Trade stall
Raise money for a good cause and raise awareness about fair trade issues by holding a fair trade tuckshop stall. Perhaps local churches would let you hold them when they do jumble sales, for a small cut of the proceeds! Your ‘good cause’ could be directly related to this topic. The money could go straight to other young people where it will make a big difference – maybe to support a food co-op in Bangladesh, or a similar educational project in Ghana etc etc. Oxfam’s Global Citizenship network is a good source for information like this. Oxfam Education’s phone number is 020 7931 7660.

Food Map
Sheffield Greenmap are making a food map of the city. What would a food map of your town look like? Where can you buy organic or free trade food? Are there any food cooperatives? Does an organic box scheme deliver to the area? Where do people grow food in allotments? What food is grown near the town (there is lots of rhubarb to the east of Leeds!)? You could use the icons and ideas on the Greenmap website to get started on a green food map of your own… or just make up your own methods and symbols and get started!