The Incredibles / Come down to the farm
Almost as soon as I landed in the UK, I began seeing evidence of their handiwork. Around Lambeth in South London I ran into a community orchard, a community greenhouse, raised veggie beds at bus stops. Later in two towns in Devon I see rows of edible beds holding pride of place in parks, roadsides and outside […]
Guy Watson is at one with vegetables / New Reservoir Food Host
Guy Watson is at one with vegetables He’s been BBC’s farmer of the year, his veggie box scheme won Ethical Product of the Decade as well as just about every other organic retail and farming award going. As a speaker and leader he’s much in demand, but I get the feeling as we bomb down the […]
Austerity & The Potato Movement / Backyard Harvest Festival
» Full newsletter here Austerity & The Potato Movement Put yourself in Greek shoes for a moment – if you were sitting at a café table sipping coffee with five good friends, up to three of you would be unemployed, meanwhile the remaining three would have had your wages cut by a third and taxes increased. […]
Hong Kong's Last Farmers / No FOMO at Joe's
Hong Kong’s Last Farmers You can tell Becky Au Hei-man’s mother has done a lot of hard work; waving us into her farmers market stall her deeply sun-browned face seems young and old at the same time. Rearranging produce as she shows us around around her lean body is all efficiency. Becky (that’s her cracking herself […]
Wanna buy a farm? / Complete Urban Farmer
Wanna buy a farm? Carolyn Suggate wants to buy a farm, well lots of farms actually and not just for herself she wants to buy farms with people who care about securing land to be farmed organically forever. This week the Organic and Regenerative Investment Co-operative (ORI Coop), Carolyn co-founded is launching the prospectus for Lyndale Park, a 714 hectare […]
How weeds lead and why we follow / Try Monday and/or Friday
How weeds lead and why we follow Two years ago this coming weekend CERES farmer Emily Connors (that’s Em with her marriage equality rainbow chard above) started selling a few bunches of produce from a table at Joe’s Market Garden. We’d been talking about setting up a farm gate just like farmer Joe Garita had done many […]
