Urban food

Some more interesting titbits for those interested in urban food-growing. Taken from an email update from the excellent London Food Link:

London Yields: Urban Agriculture exhibition

The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, WC1E 7BT
9 April - 30 May 2009

This exhibition demonstrates various methods by which food production can be incorporated into the urban environment at both an industrial and domestic level. It hopes to raise public awareness of our increasingly fragile relationship with the food on which we rely on and the method of bringing it to our table.

For more information, click here.

Access to Nature funding

Access to Nature is a £25 million grant scheme to encourage people from all backgrounds to understand, access and enjoy our natural environment.

For more information, click here.

Free Food Growing Gardening Sessions

Beckton Community Centre
14 East Ham Manor Way E6 5NG

Newham Food Partnership is organising these free session open to all who want to get growing and get accredited. The workshops will run on Tuesdays from 21st April – June 10 am – 1pm at Beckton Community Centre

For more information contact Buvana Ailoo, Buvana.Ailoo@east-potential.org.uk or call 0208 522 2587 or Steve Bynon 0208 522 2407

Spring permaculture courses in Tottenham Marshes

18th & 19th April ‘Introduction to Permaculture’ weekend

25th-29th May & 22nd-26th June ‘Full Permaclture Design Course’

Both courses organized by Naturewise in collaboration with Friends of Tottenham Marshes.

For further information or register contact, email londoncourses@naturewise.org.uk

Vegetable landrace survey – Can you help?

The Universities of Birmingham & Warwick, with funding from Defra, are carrying out a survey of traditional vegetable varieties grown in England and Wales because of their historical and cultural value, but also to conserve the full range of diversity of the UK´s crop plants.

If you are a grower of traditional vegetable varieties and would like to contribute to this survey, follow the link below to complete the survey online:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/vegetable_landrace_survey

or contact Shelagh Kell, s.kell@bham.ac.uk 01297 678117

A new vineyard in Central London

http://www.fdin.org.uk/2009/03/a-new-vineyard-in-central-london/