GUERRILLA ALLOTMENTS

The 'Credit Crunch' has left building sites in the City of London unfinished- and the City of London authorities are encouraging people to start growing fruit and veg on these unused spaces!

Edible Roof Gardens

Sustain have a created a resources page about edible roof gardens, which is useful for their 2012 Capital Growth Campaign to create new places to grow food in London.

They cite examples like honey being produced in Hackney (which according to a survey is better than River Cottage's honey, proving that great honey can be produced in a city!- you can watch the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCKCtWlQzKQ).

The Capital Growth Campaign was set to help create spaces and use spaces for growing food in London. It is to try and make London a sustainable city, and it offers great practical advice and support...

"War on Waste"

Tomorrow the government will launch a new approach to food and packaging waste issues in Britain. There will be additional easy access recycle bins, changes in packaging of products, the removal of "best before" dates on food and most excitingly, 5 new anaerobic digestion plants which will turn food waste into energy.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/kitchen-bin-war-tackling-the-food-waste-mountain-1698753.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/britain-declares-war-on-food-waste-861250.html

In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it's putting the entire planet at risk.