We’re very excited to be working alongside some visionary women in the Calderdale food system on our Landed Community Kitchens project. More and more we see paradigm shifting work like theirs as the building of metaphorical ‘rafts’ – things that we build that will prevent us from sinking in the face of the various shocks […]
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We’re really excited to be working with Andy Goldring (Permaculture Association), Rebecca Laughton (Landworkers Alliance) and Chiara Tornaghi (CAWR / Agroecological Urbanism) on this 1 year project funded by AgriFood for Net Zero. Our focus is on the city regions of Bristol and Leeds, looking through two lenses: Food Zones, and Agroecological Urbanism framework –
PAU! Pathways for an Agroecological Urbanism – a new collaboration. Read More »
On 30th Oct, Pru Elliott who leads the Right to Grow campaign for Incredible Edible, hosted Professor Tim Lang for what was an incredibly important webinar on the part Right to Grow has to play in preparing the UK for food system breakdown shocks. Prof. Lang told us about his two years of work with
We’re vulnerable and unprepared – we must change that. Right to Grow X Prof. Tim Lang. Read More »
In April, Maddy (co-lead of UAC) was asked by Mary Stevens at Friends of the Earth experiments programme, to bring together evidence and reflect on the question of ‘How to map neglected spaces for community=led growing’. This will help to inform FoE’s Postcode Gardener project – which is developing a self-sustaining model for community-led cultivation
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If you’re interested in how farmstart projects get going, read this fanatstic short blog from Catherine Howell, coordinator of the Middlesbrough Farmstart project. To connect with Catherine go to: https://www.facebook.com/BarefootKitchenCIC/ Farmstart Middlesbrough ‘23 kicked off this January with a small cohort of six participants raring to go! This is our second year. The group come
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Open Food Network workshops in Lincolnshire – 26 January 2023 By Laura Stratford (Lincolnshire Food Partnership Coordinator): We’re still buzzing from the conversations led by Nick Weir about developing local food networks and food hubs in Lincolnshire. 25 people travelled from across the county (Greater Lincolnshire is MASSIVE!) and gathered at Mint Lane Cafe in
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Farmers and environmentalists agree – food security is only possible if farming is environmentally sustainable Deliberative workshop reveals farmers are on board with climate and nature goals https://www.ippr.org/blog/food-security-is-only-possible-if-farming-is-environmentally-sustainable New, refreshing, from-the-horses-mouth research from IPPR makes for uplifting reading amongst so many negative messages about the UK’s food and farming sector. The research is ongoing and
‘Over and over we heard how they love their work’. Read More »
After two wonderful years of developing UAC, building community and understanding in the realm of urban agriculture in the UK, we are sorry to say that our core funder, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation won’t be funding us beyond our initial 3 years. They have said that it is due primarily to their funding priorities changing. We
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Ffinlo Costain hosted Jeremy along with the brilliant Rachel Hammond from Edge in Oxford to discuss all things Urban Food. Episode 71. 5th July 2022.
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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
True Regenerative Agriculture is Colourful and deeply just. Read More »