Author: CFGN

Call-out: Farm Hack coming to Forty Hall Farm

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CALL OUT FOR SHOW & TELL HACKS and WORKSHOP HOSTS

CFGN members will be hosting a Farm Hack in London on 26th September 2015, at Forty Hall Farm, Enfield.

FarmHack is a community of farmers and growers developing appropriate tools for small scale ecological farming. It was founded by The Greenhorns in the U.S. in 2010 and has since held regular events to bring the community together on farms and in workshops across the USA. FarmHack is founded on the principles of open source technology meaning that tools and techniques are also shared and developed on the online forum farmhack.net.

The emphasis of the days’ workshops will be ‘Pedal-power for farms and community projects’, hopefully with a grand unveiling of the Cyclo-sieve (currently being built by CFGN members). However there is space at the farm for other sessions and ideas don’t have to be limited to pedal power.

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Where Next Now for the Community Food Movement?

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by Ru Litherland, OrganicLea (personal capacity)

Five years ago I wrote and circulated the article “Where Next for the Community Food movement?” (this can be found at http://www.organiclea.org.uk/about/publications/) Its purpose was: “to prompt myself and hopefully others active in community food projects to reflect, analyse, even discuss, where we are, where we want to get to, how we might set off there, and who’s bringing the sandwiches.” A number of conclusions were drawn, and a number of suggestions made. Now might be a fine time to look back on what’s happened since: below, five key issues are discussed.

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Why Organic? An evening of Eating and Talking! 6th August

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Thursday August 6th, 2015 7pm-9pm, Hornbeam Café, 458 Hoe St, Walthamstow, E17 9AH Join OrganicLea and Community Food Grower’s Network for an evening workshop that will explore some of the complex issues around community food growing and organic food production. Why is it important to grow using organic methods? What’s the big difference between organic…

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“Pinching out a living” Event 23.7.15

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July 23rd 2015

6:30pm – 8.30pm

Forest Recycling Project, 2C Bakers Ave, London E17 9AW (near the Hornbeam Cafe)

“The Forgiving Earth” film screening + discussion on food-growing livelihoods 

This film night will give insights into how to create a sustainable livelihood out from community food growing—keeping in mind the philosophy of ‘the problem is the solution’. We will show a short documentary, The Forgiving Earth, that highlights the challenges and successes of urban food movement in Detroit.

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