Join the Cultivate Challenge and enter your home grown harvest successes and surprises in the Cultivate Produce Show in September. With categories for fresh and preserved produce we look forward to celebrating your delicious crops! More details to follow on the Produce Show. Pick up your Grow...
We make costly contingencies to protect the nation from a host of distant threats, yet give relatively little attention to local food systems, despite the huge potential costs of distruption to our food supply. Developing strong local food systems should be at the heart of...
Join our Seed Packing Circle and help get the Cultivate Grow Your Own Starter packs ready for local growers We welcome people who can help to accurately pack and label seeds to join us for one or more evenings getting our starter packs ready for local...
This is the Connected Roots' response to a recent article by Louise O Fresco, former Assistant Director-General of UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, dismissing local and organic farming as romantic and unsustainable. [caption id="attachment_1580" align="alignright" width="336"] Image: Penny Dampier[/caption] Local and organic is neither romantic, nor is it...
Each fruit or vegetable has a prime time when it’s at its seasonal best. Some are great for over half of the year; others only hit their peak for a month. Either way it means extra flavour, extra crunch, extra juiciness—all super-fresh and great value....
So pleased to be able to announce the judging panel for the Summer Produce Show. It's only a matter of days now before the Show, 18th July and we are delighted to have so many skilled and experienced people on our panel. Each of the...
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Waltham Forest Summer Produce Show 18th July Walthamstow Garden Party, Lloyd Park, Forest Road, E17 4PP hosted at Artillery Island (the moated island behind the William Morris Gallery) Join us in celebrating local home grown produce at this borough wide summer produce show by entering any of our three competition categories. You are...
Waltham Forest Summer Produce Show 18th July Walthamstow Garden Party, Lloyd Park, Forest Road, E17 4PP hosted at Artillery Island (the moated island behind the William Morris Gallery) Join us in celebrating local home grown produce at this borough wide summer produce show by entering one of our three competition categories: 1) Home grown...
Summer is here, and many people will now be enjoying their first crops from their Grow Your Own Challenge packs. Show us your growing successes and surprises at the Waltham Forest Summer Produce Show hosted by Artillery at the Walthamstow Garden Party, follow this link...