by Fanny Malinen This article has been published first on contributoria.com Most of us buy our food in supermarkets: Tesco, Sainsbury’s, ASDA and Morrisons control 75% of the grocery market in the UK. Spanish tomatoes and peppers come wrapped in plastic, so do green beans and fresh herbs from Kenya. Whether we want lemongrass, sushi…
Community Food Growers Network presents ‘Concrete Heart Land’ Papa’s Cafe, 10-17, Pulross Road, Brixton, SW9 8AF Thursday the 18th of September, 2014 7pm Dinner 7.45pm Film screening – – – Concrete Heart Land trailer from Myths of Social Capitalism on Vimeo. Concrete Heart Land exposes the social cleansing of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and…
Help Resist Grow Heathrow’s Eviction – Bailiffs first visit: 8am August 15th 2014 On Friday 15th August at 8am, bailiffs will make their first attempt to evict the Grow Heathrow site. Four and a half years after the site was occupied by local residents together with activists, the community garden in the middle of…
In May this year CFGN went to meet KMT who lives and works at ‘May Project Gardens’ in the suburbs of Morden in South London. We’d heard a lot about the project as KMT, a freedom teacher with a background in music, has turned his house and garden into a living permaculture space. May Project…