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A Sustainable Food Festival
We were pleased to welcome our annual food festival back to St Fagans National Museum of History this year! After two years of running digitally, it was great to see so many people sampling the tasty food, taking part in the family friendly activities and listening to the great line up of live music.
Sustainability was an important theme of this year’s event and we worked hard to reduce the environmental impact of the festival. Here are some of our successes:
- 4,241 reusable cups were used across the event's bars
- 156 customers claimed a discount on their hot drinks by bringing a reusable cup with them from home
- 648 of you travelled to the festival on the Cardiff Bus service
- Fareshare Cymru collected 100kg of leftover food at the end of the weekend. This equates to 240 meals' worth of food! And several stallholders told us they had sold out by the end of the event – meaning no food waste!
- Our event waste contractors did not send any waste to landfill. Any waste that couldn’t be recycled was processed to create energy
- We introduced a digital map this year reducing the need for printing
- Our reusable bottle and coffee cup were available to purchase if you’d forgotten to bring your own. You can still pick one up from our online shop
Sustainability was reflected in our programme too. The Good Food Cardiff zone delivered workshops, talks and demos focused on growing and cooking good food, no matter your budget.
Many young visitors enjoyed taking a step back in time over the weekend and trying their hand at some traditional activities from milking cows and Welsh Victorian cooking at Llwyn yr Eos Farmhouse, to making butter by hand at Abernodwydd. The festival’s learning events were supported by the players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
We’d love to hear your feedback on the event. Let us know what you thought by taking part in this short survey. Gŵyl Fwyd Amgueddfa Cymru Food Festival 2022
The Amgueddfa Cymru Food Festival was supported by Food & Drink Wales’ Food Festivals Recovery Fund 2022.