Rebecca Holdstock

The Urban Agriculture Consortium is excited to announce that a new phase of our work will start in autumn 2026.  

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The Urban Agriculture Consortium is excited to announce that a new phase of our work will start in autumn 2026.   The new ROOTED programme will promote and support the development of Landed Community Kitchens in eight countries across Europe, including the UK.  This will build on a just-completed pilot project with Centre for Agroecology Water and Resilience (Coventry University) which introduced Landed Community Kitchens in eight amazing grassroots settings in the north of England. The pilot was supported by […]

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Patchwork Farms

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Patchwork Farms connect producers and other parts of a local food system across a number of small and medium sites in one locality (a patchwork of sites) and can often make interesting use of neglected open/green spaces, uplifting a neighbourhood. Working cooperatively with shared branding, infrastructure and marketing, Patchwork farms and gardens are now gaining

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Projects - Grow Wilder, Edible Futures, Sims Hill

Is Urban Agriculture gaining traction across the UK?

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We think it might be. Over the years there have been various local and national initiatives promoting a growth in sustainable local food, amongst them the Allotments Regeneration Initiative, the Local Food Programme, Making Local Food Work and the Sustainable Food Places Network. Our partners in the Urban Agriculture Consortium have all reported a rise

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Protected and controlled environments

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Protected & controlled environments – from polytunnels to aquaponics, local heat sources andcomposting: urban areas can stimulate creative responses. Affordable, human scale technologies meeting local needs. Because of variations in climate across the UK, many food growing projects rely on protected or assisted growing environments to extend the growing season. These can range from passive

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Peri-urban / Fringe Farming

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Where urban meets rural, offering greatest potential for agroecological growing at meaningful scales close to urban populations. https://ecologicalland.coop/our-sites . Site at Arlington (purchasing land for smallholdings and linking affordable landworker dwellings to land for viability) Huxhams Cross Farm (multi functional farm: education, healing, food growing, community meals etc) Canalside Community Food (Community Supported Agriculture which

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Community Growing

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This covers a huge array of projects – allotments, community gardens, city farms – where people learn about & grow seasonal food, nurturing learning wellbeing and resilience. Despite a drastic reduction over the last 50 years, allotments are still perhaps the most familiar type of urban food growing though they are now classified as a

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