Links

Here are some of the projects we like:

Manchester

Food Futures is Manchester City Council/ NHS Partnership Food Futures is a partnership that helps individuals and organisations with an interest in improving food in the city.
www.foodfutures.info

Food up Front helps people in London grow their own food
www.foodupfront.org

Fairfield Compost produces compost in Manchester using fruit, veg, plant and woody waste
www.fairfieldcompost.co.uk

Hulme Community Garden Centre
www.hulmegardencentre.org.uk

Action for Sustainable Living is a charity that helps people live more sustainably in Manchester
www.afsl.org.uk

Together Works is a consortium of social enterprises in Greater Manchester
www.togetherworks.org.uk

The Kindling Trust in Manchester aims to bring together the countryside and the city and revitalise communities
kindling.org.uk

UK

Grow Sheffield works to promote growing food in Sheffield
www.growsheffield.com

GroFUN aims to increase local food production in Bristol
www.grofun.org.uk

Sustain is the alliance for better food and farming
www.sustainweb.org

Capital Growth aims to provide 2,012 new food growing spaces in London by 2012
www.capitalgrowth.org

Rest of World

Landshare is a UK wide initiative to make British land more productive and fresh local produce more accessible
www.landshare.net

MyFarm based in San Francisco grows vegetables in backyard gardens throughout the city
www.myfarmsf.com

Permablitz is a group that focuses on bringing sustainable, edible gardens to the suburban neighbourhoods around Melbourne
www.permablitz.net

Edible Skylines grow food on tower blocks in Portland USA
blog.oregonlive.com/kympokorny/2008/01/gardens_that_rose_to_the_top_i.html

Your Backyard Farmer create small sustainable organic method farms in peoples backyards
www.yourbackyardfarmer.com