Will 2025 be the year sustainable practices in our food system start to go mainstream? If so, it will be thanks to the tireless efforts of many people. From chefs to farmers, entrepreneurs and activists, we celebrate (in no particular order) some of the pioneers who are helping make the UK food scene a better place…
OUR DEE!!
13. Dee Woods, food system actionist and chair of trustees of the Independent Food Aid Network
A community food educator, urban agroecologist, cook, researcher and organiser, Dee has been working at the intersection of diversity and food for over 25 years. She co-founded Granville Community Kitchen in Kilburn to serve her local community, sharing a veg garden, cookery lessons and healthy, sociable dinners for those who need them most.
As a passionate advocate for food and farming policy change, Dee endeavours to make nutritious food grown in harmony with nature available for all, while helping to tackle issues of land inequality and food insecurity. She sits on the London Food Board and Food Ethics Council. She’s also a trustee of the Sustain Council, a member of the Lion (Land In Our Names) collective, a policy coordinator for Landworkers’ Alliance and chair of trustees of the Independent Food Aid Network.
