Ample Marketplace

16/10/2024

🥕🌽🥬It's World Food Day!🥕🌽🥬

Let's celebrate the power of food to bring communities together and drive positive change. At Ample, we believe that every fruit and vegetable matters—which is why we're dedicated to reducing on-farm food waste and supporting farmers in creating a more sustainable future.

By connecting UK growers with distributors and retailers, we're tackling food surplus and promoting fairer, more efficient food systems. Together, we can reduce waste, lower CO2 emissions, and ensure that every bite counts.🌱🤝

01/10/2024

🫐🥑🍊Happy National Vegetarian Week 🫐🥑🍊

Whether you're a full time vegan or vegetarian, or just dabble in the occasional plant-based meal, eating lots of fruit and vegetables is great for you and the planet. 🌍

At Ample, we believe in the power of local, British-grown produce to reduce food waste and promote a more sustainable food system. By supporting UK farmers and connecting them directly with buyers, we’re working to ensure that every carrot, potato, and leafy green finds its way to a plate—cutting down on surplus food and reducing environmental impact. 🌱💚

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29/09/2024

🌎𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲🌎

🥦𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲?

Food loss is the loss of edible food at the production, post-harvest and processing stages of the food chain due to sub-optimal farming methods, poor storage and inflexible distribution or buying practices (WWF, 2022).

Food waste refers to the discard of edible foods at the retail and consumer levels. Unclear labelling, portion sizes which are too big and simply not eating everything before it goes off all contribute to food waste (WWF, 2022).

🥬𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿?

Food loss and waste is a critical global issue with serious social, environmental, and economic impacts.

Around 13% of food produced globally is lost before it reaches retailers, with an economic value of $400 billion (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)), 2023). An additional 19% is wasted by consumers and businesses (UN Environment Programme, 2024)

Food loss and waste contributes 8-10% of global GHG emissions and represents a massive waste of resources, energy, and labour—at a time when hunger and food insecurity are prevalent.

🥒𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗜 𝗱𝗼?

Spread awareness about this issue, start conversations and inspire action. At the individual level, you can make a conscious effort to minimise your food waste at home, and only buy what you need. You can also find innovative ways to use the odds and ends of fruit and veg that you would normally through away, such as The Guardian's Waste Not recipes: https://ow.ly/Bfxk50TfSHs

If you are a business in the food industry, you can get your fresh produce on Ample Marketplace. This helps famers and growers minimise their on-farm food loss and waste by enabling them to sell their whole harvests.

Get involved with IDAFLW here: https://ow.ly/E0Hy50TfSHt

19/09/2024

🌶️🍅🍒 See what we have fresh on Ample this week:

17/09/2024

🍎🥕🌽Do you know where your food comes from?🌽🥕🍎

At Ample, we often visit the farms that sell their surplus on our marketplace. Knowing where and how food is grown not only strengthens our connection with the food itself, but the people who cultivate it.

Every visit fosters new insight and new ideas, including the unique challenges faced by the agricultural industry.

To learn more about the growers we work with, subscribe to our newsletter at www. ample. shop or subscribe on LinkedIn https://ow.ly/A7Nu50TfMlL

Photo: Carol Ford at Blackbird Farming

12/09/2024

🌱 Building a Fairer Food Supply Chain with Ample 🌱

At Ample Marketplace, we’re committed to creating a more equitable food system. Our platform empowers farmers and growers to sell their entire harvest—not just the picture-perfect produce you see in supermarkets—at prices they choose.

By doing so, we’re not only reducing food waste but also contributing to a more economically and socially sustainable UK food and drink industry.

Join us in making a difference, one harvest at a time.

11/09/2024

For this , enjoy the high-quality, delicious produce that Britain has to offer—from crisp apples and juicy pears to fresh leeks and vibrant chard. Support your local farmers and make a positive impact on your community! 👩‍🌾

Ample Marketplace offers a great selection of British-grown vegetables for your business. Explore our range today: www. ample. shop

10/09/2024

It's Organic September 🌽🥕🍂

Organic farming is about protecting and enhancing nature, ensuring farms work with natural systems rather than harming them. In the UK, most organic produce is certified by the Soil Association or the OF&G (Organic Farmers & Growers CIC).

One of the principles of organic farming is minimising waste. Ample Marketplace is here to help farmers, organic or otherwise, minimise their on-farm food waste by providing a platform for their surplus fresh produce.

If you want to know more about the difference between organic, regenerative and agroecological farming methods, check out this insightful article by Riverford Organic Farmers:

Find out what three main routes to sustainable farming actually mean and how to support them.

05/09/2024

Zero Waste Week Recipe Inspiration 🥗

Here's a smacked cucumber recipe from The Guardian's Waste Not series to celebrate . It uses up cucumber ends for a Chinese-inspired tasty snack or side salad. Yum!

https://ow.ly/NEST50T9nrl

04/09/2024

Find out what's fresh on Ample this week: https://wix.to/7PBGJn0

02/09/2024

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐙𝐞𝐫𝐨 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤! ♻️🌎🥗

In the UK, a staggering 10.7 million tonnes of food is wasted annually, with 15% of that waste occurring before it even leaves the farm. A large portion of this food is perfectly edible, and is often of exceptional quality, yet it never reaches our plates. 🍽️

At Ample Marketplace we're changing that. Our marketplace was created to give farmers and growers a platform to sell their entire harvests, ensuring that no food is unnecessarily wasted on farms. 🌽

Together, we can reduce waste and make the most of every crop grown. 👩‍🌾

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The best food you never tasted.

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Food waste facts: WRAP's 2023 Report

27/08/2024

A roadmap to resilient fruit & vegetable production in England. 🥬🍑🌶️🌽🥒

This report by Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming , The Wildlife Trusts and Soil Association conveys the urgent need for more domestic horticulture to ensure food security, public health, and environmental sustainability.

Only 17% of the fruit we eat is produced in the UK, and 55% of our vegetables, yet approximately 25% of food grown is lost or wasted before it leaves the farm gate, in part due to strict cosmetic restrictions laid down by supermarkets.

At Ample, we give farmers and growers the platform to sell this 'ugly', 'wonky' or 'surplus' fresh produce. It's tasty, great quality, and perfectly edible.

Find some for your food business here: https://ow.ly/hJ9r50SXjCP

We would highly recommend reading the full report here: https://ow.ly/Mbne50SXjCR