ABSTRACT
Silo, in Brighton, was conceived in 2014 as a direct response to the huge amount of waste involved in the production and consumption of food around the world. Founder Douglas McMaster looks for alternative sources of nutritious foodstuffs from varied local and regional sources. Silo doesn’t accept plastic or non-biodegradable packaging from its suppliers, and reduces road, sea and air miles associated with the transporting of food by growing as much as it can on site. Tables are made from galvanised steel ‘tiles’, formerly a raised floor in a commercial office space. There is a bit of reprocessing involved in the manufacture of Silo’s plates: they are formed from old plastic bags and surprisingly look great and function perfectly. Described by McMaster as supporting ‘a pre-industrial food system’, Silo aspires to reacquaint us with sources of foodstuff that have been neglected for centuries or longer.
