Venue
Snape Maltings,
Snape, Suffolk IP17 1SP
The Festival is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting and promoting the local community and businesses within it. We work year-round to give Suffolk producers and businesses a platform to showcase what they do, and get recognition and awareness from chefs, restaurants and business people all over the country.
Each year we have to fundraise to cover the costs of the Festival and to keep it alive for the future. We are very grateful to our sponsors, supporters, friends and visitors who all play a part in making it possible.
Your entry fees, for example, enable us to fund next year’s festival and get more exposure for our local food ecosystem.
Any donations help to make the next year bigger and better. If you would like to donate to the festival, big or small, please get in touch.
The Festival has always been a showcase for the positive initiatives going on in Suffolk, and the wider world. Due to the uncertainties created by a global pandemic, meaning conferences and full festivals were fraught with difficulty, the Festival commissioned five short films which both explain the problem and reveal some of the emerging solutions and new opportunities within the food industry.
Whilst the films show material drawn from other continents, the festival directors hope that they inform and inspire our farmers, food producers and the wider public to see a bright but changing future for our industry and Suffolk.
The organisers of the not-for-profit event also sought to reconnect people with the food provided by the landscape as a whole: the villages and market towns, the fields, woodlands and marshes, the rivers and the sea.
The festival has grown in size, success and importance but its philosophy remains the same.
Farming for the Soil
Farming for the Soil
Robot Farming
Insects. The New Livestock
Protein of the future
The biggest problem of all is how we manage the need to feed millions more humans every year in a way that doesn’t draw excessively on our planet’s reserves. Farming and food production are the largest source of climate-changing emissions. Our insatiable demand for more and more food is now the most significant cause of the Earth’s biodiversity loss.
William Kendall, Festival Director
Snape Maltings,
Snape, Suffolk IP17 1SP