{"id":2414,"date":"2017-11-02T12:22:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T12:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2017-11-02T12:22:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T12:22:44","slug":"school-alumnus-dr-simon-platten-to-host-cbcd-research-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2017\/11\/02\/school-alumnus-dr-simon-platten-to-host-cbcd-research-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"School alumnus Dr Simon Platten to host CBCD research seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent alumnus and Honorary Research Fellow Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sac\/staff-profiles\/profiles\/environ-anthropology\/honorary_staff\/platten_simon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon Platten<\/a> will speak about his work in Cornwall with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tamargrowlocal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tamar Grow Local<\/a> in a seminar entitled &#8216;Building a local food system using learning from social and ecological systems: 10 years of Tamar Grow Local.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Tamar Grow Local is an umbrella organisation that has established and supported over 20 different local food initiatives in the Tamar Valley to re-invigorate production and engagement in food growing and consumption. These range from community orchards and allotments, field-scale community growing and livestock co-operatives through to community-supported agriculture, produce co-operatives, co-operative market stalls, retail and wholesale food hubs and farmers&#8217; markets and training.\u00a0These have purposefully bridged community and commercial activity in order to build self-financing elements into community projects and to provide opportunities for progression from recreational growing through to self-employment.\u00a0Tamar Grow Local has strategically networked these projects consciously using principles from social and ecological systems to develop a resilient local food system.\u00a0Projects are \u2018nested\u2019 within each other to maximise mutual support and economies of scale.\u00a0Communities and local businesses participate in a network that connects food with wider landscape management and health and wellbeing benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place on <strong>Wednesday 8th November<\/strong> between <strong>11:30 and 13:00<\/strong> in <strong>Jennison Seminar Room 1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent alumnus and Honorary Research Fellow Dr Simon Platten will speak about his work in Cornwall with Tamar Grow Local in a seminar entitled &#8216;Building &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2017\/11\/02\/school-alumnus-dr-simon-platten-to-host-cbcd-research-seminar\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":2415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[92933,6598,70,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}