Yorkshire Grain Alliance: A vision for the Yorkshire food system

Grain plays a crucial role in our food system, but the current methods of its production, processing, and consumption have significant adverse effects on the environment, food security, and efficient land use. However, a different way is possible. The Yorkshire Grain Alliance is a collective of farmers, bakers, millers, traders, researchers, and community members committed to transforming the food system through a fundamentally different approach to grain production and consumption. By growing,processing, and supplying locally to customers, they showcase an alternative path. FixOurFood has been collaborating with the Alliance to enable methods, principles, and values which can help transform the food system. Together, we have explored what the future food system and daily life in Yorkshire could look like if all grain production and consumption were adapted to the sustainable practices that the members of the Alliance already embrace today. Together, we imagined how Yorkshire’s food system, landscape and daily life could change if all grain production andconsumption followed the principles and practices already adopted by the Alliance.