Engage welcomes Kindling Farm founders to headline second Food seminar

Engage is so pleased to welcome Chris Walsh and Helen Woodcock from KINDLING FARM, near Prescot, to headline our 2nd seminar entitled Farm to Fork – is our food journey sustainable? Residents participating in this seminar are in for a real treat. Helen and Chris have spent years developing an alternative to what this country seems to think is the only way to produce food economically.

Having spent years growing food for Manchester as part of the Kindling Trust,—which they co-founded as a social change organisation working to transform our food and farming to benefit people and nature—they’ll share with us this Autumn their first year’s experience of running their own farm in the Borough of Knowsley.

This latest project is designed to demonstrate a farming system that can be a blueprint for the future – demonstrating that bold ideas like agroforestry, social enterprise, zero-waste energy systems, district heating, community share holding, and hands-on training programmes can deliver a new way of connecting communities with the food they grow and eat.

It is such a treat that Kindling Farm is situated in the Liverpool City Region, serving both this area and Greater Manchester. We are so excited to be hosting Helen and Chris as they develop a response to the insights from Seminar One delivered by Sheila Dillon on October 2nd.

Want to hear more? Join our seminar!

You can find out more about the our 2025 seminar series here, and book tickets for each seminar via the buttons below:

SEMINAR ONE: The Food System in the UK – how good is it?

With local food producers, and a keynote from Sheila Dillon, BBC Radio 4 presenter The Food Programme and BBC Food and Farming Awards.

SEMINAR TWO: Farm to Fork – is our food journey sustainable?

With local food producers, and a keynote from Chris Walsh and Helen Woodcock of Kindling Farm, Prescot L35

SEMINAR THREE: Food Home and Away – are we making the best decisions?

With local food producers, and a keynote from Lucy Antal, Feedback Global Senior Project Manager Regional Food Economy and Lead for Food Justice; Director Alchemic Kitchen CIC; BBC Food and Farming Awards, Community Food Champion 2021