Regenerative Agriculture has a big Race and Equity issue, and it’s not going away anytime soon Article in Will + Good by Laura Fisher. April 2022 The Urban Agriculture Consortium is quite new and quite small. Members are also mostly somewhere on a spectrum of white and middle class. As part of our journey, we …
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Hot off the press! UK Sustainable Food Places Evaluation Report by University of the West of England. The Covid-19 pandemic, and – more recently – soaring food prices have focused attention on how local action is meeting the challenges of a fractured food system. We are pleased to share with you this University West of …
Did you know that one nutrient dense spinach leaf has the same mineral content as 14 industrially produced spinach leaves? Or one nutrient dense carrot has the same polyphenol content as 200 industrially produced carrots? This opens up exciting prospects for how we can bring highly nutrient dense food production into all kinds of urban …
The findings from 4 UK Fringe Farming pilots, in Glasgow, Sheffield, Bristol and London, can be found in this new report from Sustain. Benefits of farming in the urban fringes are: Increased access to regionally-produced, nutritious, culturally-appropriate foods Generation of goods and services that support community wealth-building Provision of jobs and training in a regional …
The following (scroll down) is taken from a post on the Facebook page of Middle Ground Growers, a farm on the edge of Bath in north east Somerset, posted on 7th Jan 2022. They talk about city-region permaculture design, bioregions and a powerful story of place. Music to my ears. Reading this got me unusually …
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We’re excited to see our vision of PINGs (Policy Influencers Networked Groups) emerging. PING #2 took place on 30th November 2021. We heard feedback and actions from COP26 with Duncan Williamson from Nourish, Scotland, talking about how we help shape the narrative, localism, and how councillors and local authorities in our towns, cities and regions …
Are you confident with social media, blog-gathering and website updating, and interested in supporting a shift to a resilient food system?? The Urban Agriculture Consortium works where it is needed across the UK to build relationships of solidarity and joint projects to increase agroecological food production in urban and urban fringe areas. We’re looking for a volunteer who …
By Rachel Hammond – Edge Landscaping. https://www.edgelandscaping.uk/ How it began: Todmorden to Oxford The vision is that future housing, parks, public realm areas, rooftops, will all incorporate some form of productive planting, creating pockets of local food economy and therefore raising the value of food. Rachel Hammond: Founder – Edge Landscaping. As a young child …
UAC is excited to be participating again in the 2021 Ethical Consumer Week (click to see full programme) Our session – Urban Agriculture – Growing Influence – was on Monday 18 October. This is a hugely pertinent and important event that focuses on how we, across society, economy and culture, close the gap between where …
1st September felt like the start of a new term as, after a year of meeting online as a bunch of 2D faces, our northern cluster of colleagues from our Pathfinder Cities met in person for the first time! We visited the Woodbank Community Food Hub which is part of the Kindling Trust and the …
New Farmstarts for northern cities – insights from The Kindling Trust. Read More »