Agriculture & sustainability

The Vision is working with Teesdale Marketing and the North Pennines AONB Partnership to promote local food and agricultural sustainability. 

About the project:

 Love Food, North Pennine Dales

This is a three year partnership project to support and promote the production, use and appreciation of locally grown or reared food in the North Pennine Dales area of North East England. 

Covering an area of the North Pennine Dales from the Allendale area in the north to the market town of Barnard Castle in the south and from the Cumbrian border in the west towards the limits of the dales area in the east, Love Food is a three year Teesdale Marketing Limited project.

The project has been awarded £299,600 from the Big Lottery Fund's Local Food scheme, £50,000 from the North Pennine Leader programme and £39,000 from the Barnard Castle Vision. The project is also benefitting from a minimum of £64,000 in-kind contributions from its partners who are other organisations and individuals in the area who are or have been involved with food-related projects and who are willing to share their expertise and knowledge.

The project recognises the importance to the local economy, food tourism and the accessibility of affordable local food to local communities of having viable businesses producing, selling and using a wide range of quailty local produce and products.

The project is being delivered by Teesdale Marketing Limited (the Accountable Body and with responsibility for overall project management), the South Durham Enterprise Agency and the North Pennines A.O.N.B. Partnership; the project is supported by Durham County Council, the Barnard Castle Vision and the County Durham Economic Partnership.