Over the summer a few fantastic initiatives have started to grow from the grassroots. I’ve been going along to meetings of Transition Town Peckham and Growing Southwark, full of local people who share my hopes to grow more food in the area and fix up our homes with the Peckham Power Company.
This year [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Food’
7 Oct
Growing communities in Southwark
16 Sep
Urban fruit freebies in Southwark
Last night’s Growing Southwark meeting was graced by British-Armenian designer Vahakn Matossian, who explained his Fruit City project and his beautiful picking tools. When I first got involved with OpenStreetMap I started to make my own private map of apple trees and blackberry brambles in public places. I spent one or two summers eating about [...]
9 Apr
Greens secure a Southwark food strategy
Jenny Jones, our Green councillor in Southwark, last night secured the unanimous backing of Southwark Council for the development of a borough wide food strategy. Great news! This will help deliver more allotments, free school meals, more and better paid jobs in the local food industry and above all better quality food that will also [...]
