Envision a food system that serves public health using seeds, soil and British sunshine
Share our vision. . .
. . . down-branding mealtime using British sunshine for growing ingredients while reducing our dependence on landfill.
EARTH DAY 2025 sets Day Zero of our action experiment to create a sustainable marketplace for URBeans.
NURTURAL FOOD is working with short supply chain partners ZEROSTORE, EATWISE Test Kitchen and WARDYS WAFFLE.
Our aim is two-fold... to boost eating at mealtime with ingredients grown in British sunshine and to reduce our dependence on landfill.
We're starting in the Midlands with a familiar starting ingredient, the common bean.
Our ambition... to improve everyone's access, across our country, to a healthier environment through the collective power of food cooked from scratch.
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World Pulse Day, Feb 2024
URBean EATING launched on World Pulse Day 2022 as a portal for sharing stories of how we're beginning locally and thinking nationally about public health using UK registered Beans (URBeans) as the starter ingredient.
Since then, we have been closing-the-loop with community partners including food preparers (cooks and bakers) and food producers (farmers and gardeners).
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For World Pulse Day 2024, we gathered to enjoy a taste of saucy URBeans on sour dough bread, boosted for fibre and protein with Godiva bean flour.
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Local chefs shared recipes featuring Godiva URBeans in a food tasting event organised by 'Tales from Coventry Tables' to celebrate in Coventry's year as UK City of Culture. Guests at home booked for the online event with many choosing to collect a food Taster Box beforehand to eat-a-long with the online show. The box contained four taster pots of recipes cooked by the chefs featuring beans grown at the University of Warwick research farm.
Recipes included an 'Almost Naked' bean dish; a Ugandan/Gujarati fusion curry; Libyan beans with couscous; and a sweet bean bread topped with bean butter.
