Incredible Edible Todmorden discussion at Sustainability Forum Lambeth nov 10

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If You Eat You’re In

Transcript of Incredible Edible Todmorden discussion at Sustainability Forum Lambeth nov 10

If You Eat You’re In

We Don’t Start With Nothing!

• Public and Private Land

• Verges, Parks, Canal Corridors, Back Yards.

• Market halls

• Health Centres

• Care Homes

• Schools

• Council Buildings

• Canal banks

• A Rainbow of Community Talents

Accidental Gardens

Todmorden Community College

Healing Horticulture

Nursery School

It’s a Fair Cob, growing at the Police Station

Fire Station

Church Veg

Graveyard beds

• Arthurs kids shot

Bee Credible

Every egg matters

Health Centre

• Frnt health centre

Apothecary Garden

Ferney Lee Care Home

Family Plot at School

Harvest Festival

Lost Arts, Chutney making

Cooking in the Street

Local Food Festival Market Stalls

Vegetable Tourism

Incredible Edible Todmorden

Our Four Big Asks

Build schools for the future that have the living edible world at their heart.

Transform health buildings with edible plants and trees as an integral part of the design.

Release public land for food growing.

Encourage all social landlords to allocate

space for growing food.

Incredible Edible Lambeth(north) Our ask is the same - Schools

Joanna Primary School Gardening club in Archbishops’ Park - shared land use

Walnut Tree Walk Primary ‘Cycling Gardener’ one day a week -each class have a raised bed and part of yearly food growing planner. Wheat growing with Brockwell Bake

Ethelred Nursery and Children’s Centre Teacher with Forest School training. Worms are the school’s pets .Wormery is now 4 years old

Lilian Baylis Technology School ‘Green Champion’ is now leading food growing

Incredible Edible Lambeth (north)

Health buildings, public land and social landlords with space for growing food.

Lambeth Walk GP surgery - Food planting workshop inside surgery with peppers, chilliesbut needs a place for 8,000 patients to help lead a healthier life - access to good value food apart from Tesco and make contact with nature

North lambeth 67% live above ground floor with no access to outdoor growing…nor composting. Princes Ward 5,000 households of which 2,000 are council owned

GP active support for Beautify the Beaufoy

Many thanks

Ann Bodkin

The Onion Shed

http://www.projectdirt.com/group/theonionshed