25 officers and tenants from eight housing associations across Greater Manchester came together last week for a seminar on setting up community gardens on housing association land.
The event was part of Kindling’s Big Dig project, and brought together Jade Bashford from the Community Land Advisory Service and Raichael Lock from the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens.
The BBC featured two Prestwich parks last week. On Thursday a journalist from North West Tonight visited Philips Park and filmed volunteers working on the Incredible Edible Prestwich and District (IEPAD) fruit garden and on Saturday Radio Manchester’s Manhunt programme solved cryptic clues to find their way to St Mary’s Park and meet our volunteers there.
Allotments and community food-growing gardens in Greater Manchester will open their gates to the public on Saturday 15th September, in the largest open event of food-growing spaces ever seen in the UK.
Sixteen local gardens are taking part in The Edible Gardens Open Day, providing members of the public with a glimpse of the green spaces on their doorstep. Over 5,000 people are expected to participate in national events and activities throughout September as a result.
On the evening of 29th August 2012 representatives of community gardens from across Greater Manchester came together for a training session on how to run a community garden open day.
On Saturday 15th September the UK’s largest Edible Gardens event will offer a glimpse of urban food growing in Greater Manchester, with sixteen gardens opening their gates to the public.
Many of the participating community food gardens will be putting on activities such as garden tours, talks, games and barbecues, as well as selling garden produce and home made food.
Make the most of an amazing training opportunity to learn how to set up an organic food growing business from the growers themselves this Autumn. We have a growing market for organic local food, an amazing network of support and training straight from the field – what's stopping you?!
We are in the unusual position in Greater Manchester, of having a market for local organic produce that actually pays the cost of production, not the volatile market prices! But we need more crops, and therefore more organic commercial growers local to Greater Manchester.
Allotments and community food-growing gardens in Greater Manchester will open their gates to the public during September 2012, in the largest open event of food-growing spaces ever seen in the UK. Local gardeners and growers are gearing up for The Edible Gardens Open Day, which takes place on Saturday 15th September, providing members of the public with a glimpse of the green spaces on their doorstep.
We here at Kindling love what Manchester Abundance do and over the years we have had the pleasure of working with them on a number of projects.
Abundance Manchester.
Since 2008 Abundance Manchester has been harvesting unwanted fruit and veg from gardens and allotments in the south of the city. It is distributed, often in bike trailers, to projects that can make good use of it. Since 2010 the group has also looked after the 15 year-old Kenworthy Community Orchard in Chorlton.
March's FeedingManchester #9 focussed on growing and developing FeedingManchester by engaging with and recieving feedback from individuals and groups located around Greater Manchester as part of the sustainable food movement.
Attendees ranged from Manchester City Council, The Kitchen in Bolton and businesses from within Greater Manchester such as Unicorn grocery & Cracking Good Food, with over 20 attending in total.
Some lucky members of the Kindling team have started making a short film about Greater Manchester's food heritage.
The 20 minute documentary, to be fronted by Kindling's Chris, charts how the archetypal industrial city has been fed over the last few hundred years. From a collection of villages and market towns to the urban metropolis of 5 million people it is today, we are attempting to tell the changing story of how the city has been fed from 1750 to the present day.
Around 120 pupil, their parents and local residents of Reddish and Brinnington (Stockport) attended our Big Green Thank You event at Reddish Vale Technology College on Saturday 14th July to celebrate sustainable living.