Spring is on its way and with it comes the opportunity to get outdoors, hone your food growing skills and help out at one of the many community food growing spaces in London. At this time of year a number of these projects provide apprenticeship schemes that will enable you to experience a full…
Urban food growing has been on the rise in recent years- promoted by municipalities as they respond for trends and demands in ‘local food’. In the case of London, this is manifested through Capital Growth, a partnership between London Food Link, the Mayor of London, and the Big Lottery’s Local Food Fund. Everybody is on…
A Freedom of Information request concerning a meeting between government, scientists and agri-industry in June 2012 reveals the extent to which all three are in cahoots. This from GM Freeze: GeneWatch UK and GM Freeze today released documents obtained as a result of a Freedom of Information request, which reveal that the GM companies Monsanto,…
Members will be attending this two day event, Transforming our food system in London on 8th/9th July. Organised by the UK Food Sovereignty Platform this event will bring together farmers, community food growers, NGOs and food activists to talk and plan for building a movement for food sovereignty in the UK. The registration form is…