University to showcase research on sustainable food system at Royal County of Berkshire Show

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Ready for a sustainable future? This weekend, staff and students will showcase our pioneering research to safeguard the future of sustainable food production at the Royal County of Berkshire Show. Visitors to Reading’s stand will have a chance to dig deeper into the journey of our fruit and veg, from field to fork, processing and waste, and even our farming heritage.

The display will feature an allotment, created by Reading student Arron Watson, of the Student Eats Botanika Society. The allotment will showcase four areas of our food-growing trends.

The Museum of English Rural Life display will focus on two new galleries that will feature in the new museum, which are funded by the Wellcome Trust. The Museum’s redevelopment project, Our Country Lives, will see an exciting new museum opened in 2016. 

University departments, Food & Nutritional Science and Agriculture, will showcase research on sustainable food production, as well as materials from our recent Open Online Course ‘Our Hungry Planet’. 

The stand will also feature a display on the use of industrial food waste from FoodWasteNet, a network founded by Bioscience for the Future and hosted by the University of Reading. 

Visitors to the stand can have a go at making their own mushroom growing kit using recycled materials with the National Centre for Biotechnology Education (NCBE), and a basket with MERL out of plastic milk bottles and carrier bags. 

Advance tickets are on sale until midnight on 18th September.

University of Reading stand: L200 Lew Spencer Avenue