Further to this post we put up a short while back – Another reason to grow our own food:) – 8.1.22 – there’s more writing and research backing up our argument that we could easily grow a lot more of our own food. Firstly, there’s this: UK could grow up to 40% of its own […]|
Our last post gave an update on two of the four vegetable garden plots we run: Even in the depths of winter – Part 1. This post features an update from a long established community garden on an estate in Laindon run by our partners at Basildon & Southend Housing Action. It’s not the most […]|
In our previous post – Another reason to grow our own food:) – we extolled the benefits of growing as much of your own food as possible. The images above, which is a mini-progress report on two out of the four plots we run, show that we put our money where our mouth is when […]|
Here’s more evidence to bolster the case we’re making for grassroots food production in our communities through allotments, community gardens, guerilla gardening, etc. This piece was first published on Sustain New research finds urban allotments could be as productive as farms A two-year pilot study in Brighton and Hove by the University of Sussex shows […]|