BSustained

BSustained is a business that provides training and catering services, using the combined skills of its multi-talented owner, Birgit Kehrer. The training, gardening and the catering feed into each other, informing and enhancing each other. As our slogan ‘Growing Skills – Feeding Confidence’ suggests, the business centres around the themes of building skills, enhancing confidence, growing (personally and horticulturally) and finding sustainable ways of living and eating.

Starting with workshops and catering in the first year, we intend to go on to form a social enterprise to deliver the training to disadvantaged communities, while continuing to offer catering to private customers.

To sum up, these are the ideas which underlie our work:

• Confidence and motivational training
• Empowerment through food: growing it, cooking it and eating it
• Growth: growing plants to eat, growing as people
• Food for events and workshops in healthy eating, holistic cooking and organic growing
• A celebration of difference and creativity
• Nurturing networks
• The bigger picture – sustainability in relation to a global, interdependent world and to food and growth in a world that is facing issues of unequal distribution of food, overpopulation, climate change, exploitation, globalisation of markets and stresses to many ecosystems, big or small.