Growing Communities is a pioneering social enterprise based in Hackney, North London that provides sustainable food for local people. It also serves a best-practice model for our future, low-carbon food production. In partnership with farmers on the outskirts of London their organic box scheme supplies 300 households with fruit and veg for as little as £6 a week. Most of the salad leaves in the boxes are grown on Growing Communities’ urban market gardens which is the only organically certified growing land in London. Their farmers market in Stoke Newington is the only weekly, fully-organic market in the UK. The Low Carbon Show met up with co-founder and director, Julie Brown to talk about food swaps, seasonal feasts and community orchards.

Growing Communities
http://www.btinternet.com/~grow.communities/

Community Orchard, Butterfield Square
http://www.shakespeareneighbourhood.org.uk/?page_id=9

Community Supported Agriculture
http://www.cuco.org.uk/index.php?page=3

Community Farm Land Trusts
http://www.communitylandtrust.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=34&Itemid=53

London Farmers’ Markets
http://www.lfm.org.uk/

National Association of Farmers’ Markets
http://www.farmersmarkets.net/

F3 Local Food
http://www.localfood.org.uk/

Soil Association – Local Food Works
http://www.localfoodworks.org/

Sustain – Alliance for Better Food and Farming
http://www.sustainweb.org/