Our Spring/Summer 2024 issue contains a special section themed around food. Become a Silver or Gold Crafts member to get the magazine posted to your door, and to read all our online articles
Crafting with food waste addresses our growing concerns about the impact of humans on the planet. While the shocking estimate that 1.3 billion tonnes of food are squandered every year highlights the need to ensure everything edible is consumed, much of what is currently produced by farms is neither fit for consumption nor used in other ways.
A new generation of craftspeople is attending to these neglected raw ingredients, transforming them into recycled, renewable, organic, durable and aesthetically sophisticated materials to replace the synthetic or specially cultivated ones we depend on daily – tackling the mountains of rubbish we generate in the process.
Follow the links below to read stories about each of these ingredients and how they're being put to creative use.