Nominations are now open for the BBC Food & Farming Awards 2022 and Island MP Bob Seely is encouraging Isle of Wight farmers and food producers to enter.
The Awards honour those who have done the most to promote the cause of good food over the past year, particularly in light of the challenges faced in relation to COVID-19, climate change and the war in Ukraine.
Since the Awards were launched in 2000, judges have come from a cross-section of the food world – chefs, academics, retail analysts, writers and campaigners.
Encouraging Island food producers to enter, Bob Seely said:
“We have some incredibly talented food producers on the Island, all with something very unique – and delicious – to offer.
“Though we are well and truly on the ‘foodie’ map already, I would love for Island farmers and food producers to receive more recognition nationally for their products: these awards could be a good platform to enable this.
“Let’s celebrate the best the Island has to offer and let’s see some Island winners!”
The awards up for grabs this year include Best Food Producer, Best Drinks Producer, Best Streetfood/Takeaway and Best Shop or Market.
In addition, nominations can be made for the Farming for the Future Award, Food Innovation Award, Community Food Champion and Countryfile Young Countryside Champion.
These awards recognise individuals, organisations and businesses who are striving to make a difference – whether it’s embracing new growing solutions to benefit the environment, pioneering innovative tech to improve animal welfare, exploring new ways to make good food accessible, or developing sustainable strategies to inspire the next generation of farmers.
Nominations will close on Monday, 27th June at 23:59.
Here’s how to enter:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3TW2vw8SKrMg8JmFVH9GQPn/welcome-to-the-bbc-food-and-farming-awards
Best ensure we enter this year, for future years will have less farmland left, as our wonderful planners allow huge swathes of potentially viable growing areas to be lost, not for a while to the plough, but forever.
As we must all realise by now, if a BBC run competition or event, winners will likely be mostly those who have only been in Britain a short while, as such fills the tick boxes and such faces seems to be a way of trying to make the concerning flood of millions of extra bodies here more ‘acceptable’ providing ‘feel good’ factor at those few who are very successful.
Swiz, back in the 80’s many island people worked on farms picking crops cash in hand.
As the work was intermittent most who worked with me were on the dole, and kept quiet about this cash payment or declared only some.
As this extra cash was then spent much in local pubs and shops, it was good for local society
Then the Tories demonised such black market workers.
As such ended, we have had to import the world here to do such jobs, BUT we have to supply them a house, free NHS and education, YET the unemployed cash workers of our own had that anyway, so now we are worse off, and have a housing crisis and too many people here.
As vegans push their proffered eating habit on the country, and the government bowing to the shouties, we are going to need more farmland turned over to growing the stuff needed. The beeb will no doubt get the man Packham to present the award, if he’s not tied up as a result of other activist things. I will be surprised if this comment gets published as I’ve dared mention Packham and anything against him isn’t allowed.
One expects the Beeb to scour their presenter lists for those faces being perhaps less obvious choices to co-host Chris if he is chosen which is fine if the best person for the job.
Yet like the candidates on all BBC comps the contestants must be chosen for max diversity not just because they are the best.
That is wrong and merely playing politics imo
You’re so wrong about vegans, it’s ridiculous. You need far more land to grow the crops to feed and to house the billions of animals worldwide than you would if people ate plant based food only. Up to eighty percent of agricultural land is required around the globe, according to the various reports I’ve read. You also use far more water and produce more waste (slurry and manure) and greenhouse gases. If you’re going to rant and rave – ironic that you accuse others of this by the way – maybe use some facts and stuff? Google is your friend.
Did you know that humans are in fact carnivores. Vegans and Veggies require supplements to have a healthy life. I think there is a message here. Why try to change the human being just to support a fad.
Yeah but vegans smell which is why no one likes them. Fact.
Brilliant. How’s school going for you, you allowed anything other than crayons yet?
I hope Jeremy Clarkson gets an award for highlighting his struggles against the red trouser brigade, the local planning office, and Boris Johnson’s promises yet to happen.
Once again, half a sausage gets himself into the news by doing nothing.
And what are the BBC doing spending license fee payers money on stupid awards? You seem to get an award just for being alive these days. I thought the job of the BBC was radio and TV broadcasting.
I’m lost.
It is more about brain washing subtly the masses into accepting what previously generations knew was unacceptable.
Awful to say but if you watch these foreign news channels they tell the news without the bias of the BBC