Article by Alicia Miller of the Sustainable Food Trust. The United Nations (UN) has chosen 2016 as the year to celebrate pulses – a humble family of plants that deserve much more praise and recognition than they really get, for what they deliver on nutrition and...
Don’t you want a garden that will not only produce a bountiful harvest of fresh vegetables but also produce them continuously? When you think of your dream gardens, you tend to imagine them producing a continuous and abundant supply of fresh produce over an extended period of time....
Everyone growing food or preparing preserved food in Waltham Forest is encouraged to enter the Cultivate Produce Show. How to enter the competition: Bring your entries between 1pm and 3.30pm on Sunday 4th September to the Cultivate Marquee. Winners will be announced from 5pm. *Fresh Produce Categories:* All...
Feast your eyes on our Autumn Programme! ...
*How to enter the competition:* Everyone growing food or preparing preserved food in Waltham Forest is encouraged to enter the Cultivate Produce Show. Bring your entries between 1pm and 3.30pm to the Cultivate Marquee. Winners will be announced from 5pm. *Fresh Produce Categories:* All fresh vegetables...
Energy Garden is the world's first citywide combined community energy and gardening project. By engaging with local communities, landowners and businesses, the project is creating a network of interconnected, community Energy Gardens across 50 London Overground stations. The project is a partnership between Repowering London, Groundwork London and TfL and is funded by...
CALLOUT TO WALTHAM FOREST GARDENERS - Invitation to be part of a seed packet art project for William Morris gallery show I am currently making work that explores links between William Morris's utopian romance 'News From Nowhere', and the network of food growing sites in the...
Proud allotment grower Karen Defoe shares her allotment love! Back in April 2014, as part of the first Cultivate Festival, we won a 5-rod plot on the Seymour Road Allotment site. We felt like we’d won the lottery. Our plot was inherited from a family that had...
On a recent trip to the Languedoc region in South West France, it became quite obvious that buying fresh, locally grown produce was standard practice amongst the locals. In fact, in most regions of France, outside of Paris, many families grow and harvest their own...
