Talks

Daphne Du Cros, PhD, Food Policy - Coordinator and Co-Director, Shropshire Good Food Partnership

Where:

Castle Garden Stage - Castle Gardens

When:

14th September 2025
11:30 am to 12:15 pm

Daphne Du Cros, PhD, Food Policy - Coordinator and Co-Director, Shropshire Good Food Partnership. Discussion: Slow, Local, Radical: Building a Better Food Culture Together with Shane Holland and Tish Dockerty

Daphne Du Cros is the Partnership lead for the Shropshire Good Food Partnership, connecting the dots across in the food system from farms, to communities, to the county and the Marches, for bioregional transformation with our Partners and over 360 members. She holds a PhD in Food Policy, is a Visiting Lecturer at Harper Adam's University, teaching in Food Policy and Ethics.

Her roles include Research, training and consulting on local food resilience and strategies for communities and Councils. She is the founder of Food Forward Bishop's Castle which produced the first (and so far, only) Community Food Resilience Strategy in Shropshire, and runs the Bishop’s Castle Community Seed Bank, and Little Woodbatch Farm @littlewoodbatch for food & seed skills training and community engagement. 

www.daphneducros.co.uk/

Find out more about Tish Dockerty

Find out more about Shane Holland