Green Food Skills Training
Practical, training and expertise to build sustainable skills across the food sector
Practical, real-world sustainability training, designed specifically for the food sector, with peer to peer learning and expert insight
Green Food Skills delivers practical, real-world Accredited training, embedding sustainability into daily food sector operations
Developed in collaboration with industry experts, our Highfield-accredited Green Food Skills Training equips food sector professionals with practical, job-ready capabilities. The programme blends digital learning with face-to-face sessions, and is applicable for teams working across operations, kitchen environments, and customer-facing roles
Real-word insights from Green Food Skills Mentors
Learners are supported by a diverse team of Green Food skills Mentors, from organic farmers and regenerative agriculture specialists to nutrition and sustainability trained chefs, award winning plant-forward recipe developers, food waste experts, restaurant owners, and front-of-house leaders
Collectively offering over 150 years of hands-on experience, these mentors share invaluable real-world insight
Green Food Skills Knowledge Exchange
Delivered via Sideways.ai, a cutting-edge platform built by food sector experts for food sector agents, the Green Food Skills Knowledge Exchange offers mobile-friendly, multimedia-rich learning, featuring options to ask questions of peers, and share ideas and inspiration, from videos, to recipes, to articles to strategy documents, and more
Learners can save and share work, ask our Green Food Skills mentors questions in real-time, and collaborate across teams, driving lasting engagement with green initiatives. Supported by functionality that enables effective tracking of learning, via clear reports that enable teams and individuals to maintain learning records with ease.
Why Green Food Skills is unique
Online modules
Accessible, structured learning across core sustainability concepts, and context, sustainability principles, current and emerging legislation and shared terminology
On-Farm sessions
In-person Training on working farms, provides first-hand insight into how food is produced, seeing sustainability in practice. Our partner farms are in London, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Gloucestershire, and other food businesses in Suffolk & Kent
In-Kitchen sessions
In-Kitchen hands-on sessions focused on how to create genuinely sustainable, delicious food and strategies, reduce waste and apply those skills in real operations. Either in your kitchens, or our partner kitchens at multiple locations
Real-world insight
Underpinned by an exceptional network of expert mentors from across the food system—farmers, chefs, producers, operators—who bring real-world experience, challenge thinking, and support practical implementation of sustainability initiatives.
Accredited
All learning is Accredited with Highfield, an Ofqual regulated training assessor
Knowledge Exchange
Mobile optimised Knowledge Exchange, for continuous learning, with peers and mentors, to accelerate change across the sector
Meet the Green Food Skills Mentors
Our mentors bring together expertise in sustainability, food systems, nutrition and hospitality. Each mentor contributes specialist knowledge to the programme.
- Chef & Nutritionist
- Educator & Speaker
- Recipe Developer
- Organic & Regenerative Farming
Some great food businesses we've Trained
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