This blog is being developed as a facility to enable me to effectively share information, and make beneficial connections, between people working in various community networks in Manchester, concerned with local food, and related issues.

The site is comprised of a collection of stories containing the following:

• basic information, often including links to other articles, and web sites;
• thoughts and ideas, generally from the originator of the article; and
• offers and requests, of information, goods, services, or other resources.

In general the content concerns the following networks that I am involved with:

• Manchester Food Futures and the Health Inequalities Pool (HIP)
• HELF - the Healthy Eating Local Food partnership (see HARP)
• MPN - the Manchester Permaculture Network

In the left hand column, there is a navigation menu, with links to stories specific to each of the above networks. The links are also included at the top of each story, below the headline, in small, blue font. Clicking on these links will have the same effect as clicking on the naviagation menu in the left hand column.

RSS Feeds
If you scroll to the bottom of the front page, you can click on the small, square, orange RSS symbol. This generates an RSS feed of all the stories in the front page. If you use Firefox, you can link this feed directly to the bookmarks toolbar of your browser. Alternatively, you can feed this information directly into your web site or blog, if you have one. Also you can use 'third party RSS readers' such as Google, or Facebook, to access your favourite feeds from this, and other websites.

When you follow a link to a specific network, you will generate a  page with a collection of stories specific to that Network, and by scrolling to the bottom of these pages you will see the RSS symbols again. Click on these RSS symbols to access feeds specific to the Network that you are involved with, or interested in.

Email Lists
If RSS feeds are not your thing, then you can have the information on this site sent to you by e-mail. As with the feeds, you have the option of receiving information about all the neworks I am involved with, or you can decide to join an e-mail group which provides information that is relevant to a specific network. (Note that because of the interelated nature of these networks, there is a degree of duplication of information disseminated accross the different e-mail groups.)

To recieve e-mails on all the networks, simply enter your e-mail in the 'Subscribe to Roblog'  box in the left hand column of this page, and the homepage. If you would like to be added to an e-mail list to get information on a particular network, then go to that particular network's page, and enter your e-mail address in the box on the right hand side of the page.  

I hope this blog is useful to you, leave a comment below, and let me know ... Rob :-)