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Age Better with Liz Earle

Food for life with Joanna Lewis

Age Better with Liz Earle

Liz Earle

Gut Health, Liz Earle, Women's Health, Supplements, Beauty, Education, Skincare, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Arts, Fitness, Midlife, Menopause, Healthy Ageing, Exercise, Fashion & Beauty, Better Second Half, Health, Wellbeing, Hormones

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Liz chats to Joanna Lewis from the Soil Association. Heading up their Food for Life programme, Joanna tells Liz all about their mission to bring fresh, local food into schools, hospitals, care homes, and workplaces across the country.


You can find the show notes at https://lizearlewellbeing.com/episode-15-food-life-joanna-lewis/.


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0:00.0

Hello, you're listening to me, Liz Earl, with Wellness with Liz Earl.

0:10.0

And following on from the absolutely riveting in-depth chat we had with Helen Browning.

0:15.0

Today I'm continuing our discussions on sustainable organic food production

0:20.0

and I'm absolutely delighted to welcome Joanna Lewis to my well-being studios.

0:25.6

Joanna is the Strategy and Policy Director for the Soil Association's Food for Life.

0:31.6

A national programme all about making good food more easily available to everyone,

0:37.0

whoever and wherever you are.

0:39.0

Joanna, you are so welcome.

0:41.0

Thank you for following on from Helen. Thank you for inviting me.

0:44.5

So tell us a little bit about Food for Life. What is it and what do you do with it?

0:51.4

Food for Life started out more than 14 years ago, very much inspired by a dinner lady

0:57.6

called Jeanette Ory, who went on to inspire Jamie Oliver.

1:00.9

Many may be familiar with Jamie's series and everything that he's done for school food, but it all

1:05.8

started with this rather special dinner lady who decided in her own primary school in

1:11.2

Nottinghamshire that she'd had enough of opening packets

1:15.6

and just serving up processed food to children and she took the food back in-house

1:20.7

and she served seasonal, fresh local and organic food and she proved

1:25.0

proved it was possible.

1:26.0

And she brought that to the Soil Association all those years ago

1:30.0

and together we created this campaign

1:32.0

called Food for Life and it was basically saying

1:35.2

we can't afford for children to be growing up with the normality of regularly eating processed food

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