Local Food is the Business – taking action
More than 50 local food activists assembled at Open Project Night on 22 May to hear from 4 local food enterprises and think how we can supply the gaps and challenges so that we can move towards a local food system that can supply real local needs and begin to compete with the corporate take-over [...]
Next Transition Town Brixton meeting 25th August
Transition Town Brixton is meeting at the new Brixton Pound cafe which opened in July 2016 (more info here). It’s Brixton’s first pay-what-you-feel cafe!
We will be there on Thursday 25th August from 6.30-8pm at 77 Atlantic Road, SW9 8PU
We will be trying some of their delicious food which they are aiming to source from local [...]
July newsletter out now
TTB’s latest newsletter includes details of the Lambeth Sustainability Forum on 3 July, the Future Brixton planning workshop on 4 July, plus an account of the ‘Who Feeds Lambeth?’ discussion convened by Incredible Edible Lambeth.
And congratulations to Duncan Law, who was made a Lambeth Champion in May for his work on Transition Town Brixton. Read [...]
Incredible Edible meeting report
The meeting on 14th March was held at the Stockwell Community Resource Centre. Another session packed with discussions on topics covering:
Establishing food hubs
Writing our Food Strategy document
Developing the website
The logo
What we are spending our £1,500 Capital Growth Funding on (Workshops and open days at the Brockwell and Myatts Fields Parks)
Devising a cycle tour for the [...]
Incredible Edible Lambeth Website Up
Following several meetings of this umbrella group, the website is up! This is a loose network covering 84 food growing groups in the borough that has started to make links with statutory agencies including the NHS and Lambeth Council around overlapping and varied goals. Basically there are lots of different reasons to get into food [...]