Parish Larder Foodprint
Local food, measured.
Every time someone shops on Parish Larder, money stays inside the local economy, food travels fewer miles, and carbon stays in the ground. These numbers are aggregated across every order on the platform — by country, by region, and by community — and updated every ten minutes.
Kept local
£111.18
Money paid to small producers, not supermarket HQ.
Food miles avoided
11,990 mi
Vs a supermarket basket of the same shopping.
CO₂ saved
32.7 kg
Conservative Carbon Trust food-emissions estimate.
Producers supported
2
11 orders placed.
Customers benefitting
8
Across 2 producers.
By country
Where the impact lands.
England
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
By region
All twelve UK regions.
Each row sums every revenue order placed by a customer in that region. Empty rows are regions where we don’t have any orders yet.
| Region | Kept local | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No regional data yet — once customers place orders these rows will populate by postcode. | ||||
By community
Top ten parishes.
Postcode-area communities (e.g. GU = Guildford and district) ranked by how much they’ve kept local. When the formal parish / community feature lands these will gain proper names — for now we use the postcode prefix Royal Mail issues.
No communities ranked yet — postcode-area buckets will appear here once customers start ordering.
Why local matters
Three reasons the numbers above add up.
- Money stays in the parish. The supermarket model sends roughly half of every £ to warehouses, distribution centres and corporate HQ. Buying direct from a producer leaves ~85p of every £1 in the local economy.
- Food travels fewer miles. The average UK supermarket item travels around 1,100 miles farm-to-shelf (Pretty et al., Defra). A typical Parish Larder order moves ~10 miles end-to-end.
- Carbon emissions drop. Short-chain local food carries roughly 0.3 kg CO₂e per £1 of spend; the supermarket equivalent is about double. The conservative net we use across this dashboard is 0.25 kg saved per £1 — comfortably under the published research.
Add your shopping to the count.
Every order on Parish Larder pushes these numbers up. Sign up free — see your own personal foodprint plus your parish’s.
See my foodprintMethodology. Numbers come from every revenue-status order in the Parish Larder database. Food-mile and CO₂ figures use deliberately conservative heuristics calibrated to Pretty et al. 2005, Defra’s weighted food-miles work and Carbon Trust food-emissions tables. We round down at every step. Source constants live in apps/web/lib/foodprint.ts.