We’re excited to see our vision of PINGs (Policy Influencers Networked Groups) emerging. The date of the 2nd PING meeting is now set: Tuesday 30th November, 14.30-16.30. We’ll be looking at feedback and actions from COP26 with Duncan Williamson from Nourish, Scotland, talking about how we help shape the narrative, localism, and how councillors and …
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 »
It’s thrilling to see that Rosario in Argentina has won the World Resource Institute Prize for Cities 2021 – for it’s incredible transformation from economic collapse in 2001 to a resilient agroecological city. I was honoured to meet Antonio and Raul, who coordinate Rosario’s agroecological transition, when they came to London in 2019 as part …
It really great to see our northern pathfinder cities sharing a platform to talk about their experiences and challenges in building real food and farming systems. Buy tickets here on Eventbrite. This virtual workshop will use case studies and presentations to: Explain how urban farms can contribute to our food supply and food sovereignty aims, …
Event: building real food and farming systems in northern cities. 14th Sept 10am-12.30pm Read More »
UAC has been able to take a prototyped mapping tool developed with GeoFutures and the FoE experiments team in Bristol for mapping land for trees, and link it to Food Futures in Lancaster. What they are now creating is a ‘Hope Spots’ mapping tool that will help the district of Lancaster plan, in real terms, …
Hope Spots: Mapping potential food growing land in Lancaster (and beyond?) Read More »
How the making of this quilt raised £18k for a grant pot for BIPOC food growers in the UK. I was so moved when I read about this collaboration between Public Library Quilts, Decolonise the Garden and Land In Our Names (LION). It uses fabric from 11 countries and over 50 natural plant dyes donated …
The much anticipated National Food Strategy has given us this fascinating overview of land use (below). We can see that 50% of habitable land in the world is given to agriculture and 1% is urban and built up. So straight off the bat this shows us that when we think about transforming urban food systems, …
What does the NFS have to say about Urban Agriculture? A few initial thoughts… Read More »