In this month's episode I speak to Jade Bashford of the Oxford Real Farming Trust, about Food Justice, and how food can sustain not just the individual, but the community. The Extended Table project brings four organisations from across the UK into a single faceted initiative that realises the power of good food, and a good food system.

There are perhaps a few key principles that make Extended Table an exemplar of a well designed project. It has a unifying idea that is realised in several different ways, capacity building is explicitly build in, and the evaluation process is meaningful. Of these it is the evaluation model that excites me most, because having talked to Jade, I'm not sure if I've ever experienced an evaluation that is truly fit for purpose. And I'm including ones that I've conducted. And if you need more convincing, extended table itself was designed around the learning taken from a evaluation of a previous project. learning that may well not have happened under a standard methodology

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You may remember back in episode 22 our guest was Andrea Freeman, a US law professor about the state of food justice in the USA.This month I was able to return the favour and speak to her students from the Southwestern Law School, during their summer school at the School or Oriental and African Studies in London.This is a recording of the speech I gave, some of these subjects will be familiar to regular listeners, and some may even deserve their own future episode. But for now, here is a introduction to how a small provincial food partnership cam occasionally thumb the scales of food justice in favour of its community.

We join the lecture part way through, after I've given an outline of what a Food partnership is.

Thank you for indulging me, and I promise that in the next episode I will once again be in listening mode.

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There was a time in this country when garlic was looked upon with suspicion, and more; I know becuase I was there. These days there are plenty of us who would consider the store cupboard incompete if we didn't have bulb on premanent standb.

The Garlic farm, base on the the Isle of Wight has made garlic its brand focus. But more than that, they have embraced organic, regenerative and agro-ecological practices that have put them at the forefront of what sustainable farming can be, and needs to be.

I spoke to Barnes about the two abiding passions oin the farm, what they do, and how they do it

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