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Big Blue Bike	Cycle Couriers
Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales	Wales’ foremost voluntary countryside organisation
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Choose British	Helping the local economy and reducing your carbon footprint
Countryside Council for Wales	Find out more about the open air of Wales
Cynnal Cymru	Sustainable Development Forum
EaK Design	Design Agency
Energy Saving Trust	Helping everyone save energy in the home
f3	Enabling local food systems.
Facebook RCMA	Riverside Market on Facebook
Fairtrade Wales	Wales becomes World's first Fairtrade Nation!
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Fork2fork	Real food from real people
Freecycle Cardiff	A grassroots movement of people giving and getting stuff for free in Cardiff.
Friends of the Earth Cymru	Working to protect the environment.
Henry Doubleday Organic Association	Organic gardening advice
Nutrition Network for Wales	Physical Activity and Nutrition Network for Wales
Permaculture Association (Britain)	Creating sustainable human habitats by following nature's patterns
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Rounded Developments Enterprises Ltd	Wales' only dedicated Sustainable Building Centre
Soil Association	Sustainable organic farming and championing human health
Sustain	The alliance for better food and farming
Sustainable Development Commision	Helping build a One-Planet Nation
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The Food Standards Agency Wales	Helping ensure that food in Wales is safe and sound.
Visit Cardiff	Welcome to Cardiff, Capital of Wales!
Wales The True Taste	The Welsh food 'Oscars'
Wales Tourist Board	Our farmers' markets are a big attraction!
Wallace IT	Web Designers

SUPPORTING A ONE PLANET WALES!

RCMA continues to expand its various local food activities as we expanded on the basic mission of helping to ensure a plentiful and delicious supply of ‘local food for local people’.

Our markets seem busier than ever, and we get many positive comments from people who value the contribution they make to the quality of life of Cardiff as a whole, and of the communities where the markets are located.

We also continue to receive very positive feedback from our many customers - more than three thousand of whom now receive a regular e-newsletter.

We find our farmers markets and our various outreach and educational activities being increasingly referred to as examples of good practice in Welsh Assembly documents and as one of the key city attractions in Cardiff

It is an interesting time to be involved in the local food business in Wales. The Assembly Government published several strategies which have direct links with what we are aiming to do in contributing to a vibrant local food economy in Wales, and making Wales a One Planet Nation!

At a national level there has been a steady stream of policy statements from agencies such as Friends of The Earth, the World Wildlife Fund, Sustain and the Soil Association all making the case in ever clearer terms that a healthy, happy, sustainable world demands a drastic restructuring of our absurdly oil-dependant industrialized food system.

Some powerful films produced during 2009 such as ‘Food Inc.’, and television programmes such as the excellent BBC series ‘The Future of Food’ have further driven the case home. The UK Government reached a more timid but fundamentally similar conclusion in its ‘Food 2030’ report.

So we feel there is no question that Local Food - and RCMA – is here to stay!

If you are interested in helping to run any of RCMA's activities, to get involved with our Community Allotment, or would like to buy a share in our Market Garden (www.riversidemarketgarden.co.uk), please contact us on:

t: 029 2019 0036
e: gareth@riversidemarket.org.uk

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SUPPORTING A ONE PLANET WALES!