Brixton Food and Growing Group

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This is a working group of Transition Town Brixton and is open to anyone in Brixton or the surrounding areas who is interested in being involved in making our community more sustainable and resilient through local food and growing initiatives.

Website: http://www.transitiontownbrixton.org/category/groups/food-growing/
Location: Brixton
Members: 108
Latest Activity: Mar 10

Welcome to the Brixton Food and Growing Group!

This group is whatever YOU make it. You can use it to connect up with other members of Transition Town Brixton Food to share your interests, ideas, skills, knowledge, seeds, tools, energy and passion. Or you can contribute by adding to the discussions below or use the box below to download our Newsletter and other interesting docs.

Current gardening opportunities with our group are within the Bringing Land into Production (BLIP) project, see the BLIP Project Dirt website.

If you want to get more involved, look at the task and project list (here) (a spreadsheet should open in your browser) and contact us for a chat. There are a variety of things to do ranging from updating the web with funding or event details, to leading or supporting one of the strands of activity such as the mapping or food growing guide, with lots in between like newsletters and strategy! We need people to do regular tasks as well as one-off things.

We hold regular meetings, currently in the Robsart Street Centre, 6-8 Robsart Street, SW9 0DJ. Meeting notes can be found here: http://www.transitiontownbrixton.org/2009/12/minutes-mind-maps/

Green Drinks is on the third Wednesday of every month at the Duke of Edinburgh, 204, Ferndale Road, London SW9. NB: NEW VENUE! Come and meet to share ideas, projects and experiences or just have a pint with some green people.

Visit our group and project pages on the Transition Town Brixton website for more info on the group and useful resources. Transition Town Brixton is our parent organization.

You can contact us to join our mailing list to receive event notices and newsletters or to be put in touch with people who may have similar interests... like roof gardens, or permaculture... by emailing ttbfood@gmail.com. Please give your name, email address, phone contact details and your interests. Please be as specific as possible about interests so that we can send you the most relevant information.

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Comment by TTBFood on June 24, 2011 at 0:54: I've just discovered that it is really much better to use 'Add a discussion' for adding content rather than using 'add comments'. This is because the discussions can be collapsed and so don't take up so much room.

Penny

Comment by TTBFood on September 17, 2010 at 20:42: Great video, Felix. We hope to have a gardening/food area in the reuse centre - materials for container growing, recycling preserving jars, gardening equipment, pots etc ...
But the link to rate the video didn't seem to work. Can you check it? Thanks.
Penny

Comment by Felix Gonzales on September 17, 2010 at 12:16: Hi TTB are in the process of a video funding application. Please help rate this fantastic Transition Brixton community reuse, recycle scheme by adding your comments and rating. If successful it would allow TTB to
secure much needed funding that would help incubate and innovative enterprises Recycle Reuse schemes throughout Brixton... Good Luck TTB http://www.innovate10.co.uk/video/brixton-reuse-centre

Comment by PaulS on August 4, 2010 at 18:28: Hi Brixton,
Field Power are making carbon-neutral deliveries of our organic, grass-fed, native breeds beef and lamb boxes, which are also carbon neutral - one of the first farms to convert - all our water, water heating, space heating, electricity and transport fuel utilises/ is made of renewables. You can read about the details here: http://www.bigbarn.co.uk/ or place an order here: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Cottage-Farm-Shop. We deliver just once per month, every last Wednesday and quite a few people find it convenient to share a box. And btw, our prices are lower than supermarkets' prices for chemical meat.

Recently I have presented our journey from non-farmers to one of the first organic carbon-neutral beef & lamb farms at The Royal Agricultural College and also at the last Transition Movement's International conference. I would be very happy to combine our next delivery on 25th August (or later deliveries) with a talk/ presentation at a suitable event. Just let me know.
Good luck
Paul

Comment by David Boyce on July 16, 2010 at 17:49: Apologies to all who have seen this for the fourth time now or to those who have already contacted me, I don't mean to be a spambot! However, If you are involved in any growing initiatives around the Lambeth area please join this project page http://www.projectdirt.com/group/lambethgardens - Following some very encouraging conversations there definitely appears to be some interest for taking this further beyond research, but we need more people to make a good go of it! Peas and lovage x

Comment by Katy Thompson on May 1, 2010 at 20:13: Hello to all -this person has top soil going spare-
hellomate20@hotmail.com
give him a mail if you need any
Cheers
KatyT

Comment by TTBFood on January 11, 2010 at 23:36: Hi Therese,

Look about half way down on
http://www.farmgarden.org.uk/publications
You can download it from there.

Let me know if you still have problems.

Penny

Comment by Therese Stowell on January 11, 2010 at 19:43: Hi, I'm reading the very helpful Grower's Pack. It recommends reading the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens' Community Garden Starter Pack. I have looked on their website and it is in their members' area, but I can't join as an individual. Does anyone have a copy they could email me? thereses [at] msn.com. Thanks!!

Comment by Katy Thompson on December 14, 2009 at 18:07: HELLO EVERYONE I'M NEW!
i am helping out with coordination of the group after Bonnie and Zoes hand over a few weeks ago.
Penny Noy is stearing the coordination and Katy Press is hard at work with coordination and writing the news letter-OUT SOON. Im going though our contacts list and doing misc admin.
We are putting out the feelers and would like to meet at green drinks (6.30pm at Trinity Arms 16th dec 09) thats half hour earlier than all other TTBers, so we can say a quick hi and arrange meeting for new year. Please let us know if you can make it.
Look forward to meeting you all.
Cheers
Katy Thompson

Comment by Felix Gonzales on November 14, 2009 at 8:35: On Saturday 31st October, the Mayor of Lambeth took part in a B£ shopping spree, that started off at Morleys of Brixton department store where the Mayor got himself some B£s.

Next on the list was A&C Continental, Portuguese deli on Atlantic Road, from which the Mayor emerged with a bag of goodies, including herbs and onions for his dinner. From there the Mayoral convoy, made up of a number of B£ supporters and onlookers, moved to the Arcades market for a stop at Wa Zo Bia, African food store, to buy some chilies, and then across to Secondo, vintage clothes outlet, where the Mayor picked up a very cool jersey.

From there, and with many hello-stops at regular intervals, the Mayor reached Nubian Natural Body Care, on Atlantic Road, where B£s came handy in the purchase of some scrumptious salt crystals. Next it was Diverse Gifts, on Atlantic Road, and finally over to Stuart the Watchmaker, on Pope Road, before the Mayor said good bye to the team and headed off to his next engagement. No doubt those bath salts would have come handy that evening.

The shopping spree was a fantastic success in promoting participating businesses and the B£, with passers-by and shoppers out and about in Brixton.