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Railroads and Radishes
The train I used to take on my commute from Stratford to Liverpool Street is raised significantly from ground level, and from it you have a wonderful view of London’s potential. Overgrown and abandoned...
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Starters
I recently heard about a project going on in Todmorden in West Yorkshire, where the residents have been using every possible bit of the town’s vacant public spaces to grow food. Incredible Edible...
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Cooking Weeds
I’ve just discovered Vivien Weise’s excellent Cooking Weeds, a cookbook dedicated to, as the name suggests, using the abundance of edible native weeds available to us for free in a variety of...
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Holiday ideas for kids (free and local!)
Stuck for ideas on what to do with your kids this Easter? Aside from the usual egg-decorating and treasure hunts going on around the capital this Easter holiday, there are several more unusual...
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Foraging for food in Lower Clapton
Back in January, I discussed the virtues of the Silverberry, or Elaeagnus x ebbingei, one of the only berries I know of which is ripe in the early spring. The one I walk past every day grows within the...
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Secret London garden #3: St. Mary’s Secret Garden, Pearson Street
It’s very difficult to photograph St. Mary’s Secret Garden in a way that gives an accurate representation of what this place is all about. Sensory garden, herbaceous border, fruit trees, vegetables...
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Feasting
We’ve spent the last three weeks in Morocco, where Safi met her huge extended family for the first time and we gorged on tajine, watermelon, almonds, bekkoula, oranges and pots of mint tea. I was...
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Secret London Garden #5: The King’s Cross Skip Garden, Pancras Road
“After the Olympic Park, this is the biggest building site in London”, says Paul Richens, the King’s Cross Skip Garden‘s enthusiastic and wonderfully knowledgeable gardener who shows me around – which...
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Secret London Garden #7: Wilton Estate Orchard, Wilton Way
The longer I do this urban food growing thing, the more I find going on. Which makes sense obviously, but I never cease to be amazed by the range and scale of the projects that communities are setting...
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