Five lessons learned… …from working at Sutton Community Farm by Gavin McGregor (former VegBox Project Assistant at Sutton Community Farm) http://suttoncommunityfarm.org.uk/ I recently left Sutton Community Farm after 16 months – roughly half as a volunteer and later on the staff as VegBox Project Assistant. I had a wonderful time – it was a privilege…
On Saturday 8th of March CFGN brought together a collection of seeds for swapping from community gardens around London, and to run ‘Seed-dating’ where people paired up to sow seeds into small pots together. Stoke Newington farmers market was drenched in early Spring sunshine as we set up the seed stall amongst fresh vegetables, fruits,…
Grow Heathrow, the squatted community garden by Heathrow airport, celebrated it’s 4th Birthday on Saturday the 1st of March. People came from Bristol, Cambridge and France to kick off the celebrations with ‘Three Acres and a Cow’ on the Friday evening- a people’s history of Britain through folk songs, stories and poems connecting The Norman…
The Co-operative Group wants to sell all of its land to the highest bidder, partly to fund the losses of its appallingly run bank. To make as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, they will try and sell to the highest bidder. But this is the biggest land sale in decades: that means over 50,000…