12 feed your soul as much as your belly

We are what we eat. We know this. And our planet, also, is deeply affected by what we decide to put in our bellies. What we eat, how it's grown, where it's grown, and who grows it, are deeply interwined with human and planetary health. So getting it right is yet another example of how we can invest in human and planetary health, at the same time. Simple.

So this means not just encouraging patients to buy a plastic bag of greens from a supermarket shelf, flown half way across the world (on a plane!). It's about enabling staff and patients to get involved in projects that connect people to each other, to the land, to the soil, to the outside, and to health. The co-benefits are astonishing: better mental health, better physical health, better skills, better social connection, better nutritional knowledge, better diet, better habitat, better community. They can keep us well, and help us recover from sickness faster. Our community food enterprises are our collective immune system. Maybe it's time to invest in them ...

wasn't my happiest self, really wanted to get involved in growing food

Social prescribing as diabetes superpower

Dr Kath Brown kicked off the good food fight by ensuring newly diagnosed diabetic and pre-diabetic patients had the chance to do something fabulous....

Veggie boxes on prescription

Having got their teeth into the food thing (see what we did, there?) Watergate PCN used a small Public Health grant to trial veggie boxes on prescription. And Lordy, it works ...

Working with community food partners for the common good

We have a whole emerging kaleidoscope of community food enterprises in Cornwall, and we are busy setting up fabulous links between local food growers as top notch creators of good health ... check out Dr Kath Brown's talk at the launch of the Cornwall Sustainable Food Partnership this year!