Other UK activities & organisations
As well as the loads of growing activities in Birmingham and its environs, here are some links (in alphabetical order) to other UK-based food growing activities and organisations — please tell us of more! (Overseas projects are listed here.)
- Back to Front create gardens in Leeds that look good and taste better
- Brighton and Hove Food Partnership
- City Harvest, one of Sustain’s projects
- City Farmers
- Community Supported Agriculture on the Soil Association website
- Diggin-it in Plymouth
- Farming & Countryside Education On-line
- Federation of City Farms and Urban Gardens
- Food for Life Partnership
- Food Matters, a not-for-profit organisation that has a planning advisory role with Brighton & Hove Council
- Glebelands City Growers in Sale, Greater Manchester
- Grow Sheffield
- Heeley City Farm in Sheffield
- Home Growers, a small company that works with individuals, community groups and schools
- Home Grown Community Owned (HogCo) in Devon
- Incredible Edible in Todmorden where Incredible Edible started . . .
- Landshare, connecting growers to people with land to share
- Little Growers providing horticultural equipment, advice and support to UK schools
- Making Local Food Work
- Middlesbrough Environment City
- National Society of Allotment & Leisure Gardeners
- Natural Beekeeping Trust
- Oak Tree Low Carbon Farm, east of Ipswich
- OxGrow, Oxford’s Edible Community Garden
- Project Dirt list of projects
- Root Camp (for 15-21 year olds)
- RUAF Foundation: resource centres on urban agriculture & food security
- SAGE: Sow and Grow Everywhere, Glasgow’s Growing Food Network
- Scottish Orchards
- Somerset Community Food
- Sustainable Bungay
- The Community Farm in Bristol
- The Green Backyard in Peterborough
- Transition Network
- Transition Town Brixton
- Wastewatch on food
And these projects based in London and its conurbation:
- Abundance Kingston, Transition Town Kingston, as in Kingston-upon-Thames
- Abundance Wimbledon using fruit picked in the area
- Back2Earth in Tottenham
- Belleville School Vegetable Garden in Battersea
- Broomfield Community Orchard in Palmers Green, London
- Burgess Park Food Project in London
- Capital Growth: the campaign to get 2012 community food-growing spaces in London by the end of 2012
- Chelsea Fringe
- Cultivate London
- Dulwich Vegetable Garden
- EcoLocal in Carshalton, Surrey
- Elephant and Castle Urban Forest, London
- Farm:shop in Dalston, London
- Forty Hall Farm in Enfield
- Food from the Sky on the rooftop of Thornton’s Budgens supermarket in Crouch End
- Food Loop, a community-led food waste recycling enterprise, Malden Lane Estate, Camden
- Fruit City, a growing map and network of all the fruit trees in public spaces in London
- Growing Communities in Hackney
- Hackney City Farm
- Incredible Edible Lambeth
- Kingston Orchard Project
- Lansbury Gardeners in east London
- London Environmental Education Forum (LEEF)
- London Food Link
- London Orchard Project
- London Permaculture Network
- London’s Buzzing, about beekeeping in the capital
- OrganicLea: A workers’ cooperative growing food on London’s edge in the Lea Valley
- Ruskin Park Community Garden in London
- Secret Greenhouse, London
- South London Master Gardeners
- St Aiden’s Primary School Veg Patch in London N4
- Stepney City Farm
- Sutton Community Farm, delivered fresh fruit and veg in Sutton
- Sydenham Garden
- Tabard Community Allotments
- The Edible Bus Stop
- The Garden Classroom
- The People’s Plot
- Transition Highbury
- Transiti0n Town Tooting
- Union Street Orchard
- Urban Farmers Market in Peckham & Camberwell
- Urban Physic Garden (and cafe)
- Vauxhall City Farm
- Walworth Garden Farm
- Wayward Plants
- Wimbledon Food Group