What is Incredible Edible Lambeth?
Incredible Edible Lambeth is a collection of people and organisations who work together to make sure that healthy, sustainable, locally produced food is available to everyone living in Lambeth, regardless of income, both now and in the future.
What’s special about Lambeth?
- Like most London boroughs, Lambeth is a series of interconnecting villages
- Those villages are full of people growing and producing food (123 growing projects at the last count)
- They are also full of people who suffer food poverty and ill health
- Lambeth is diverse borough offering a rich food heritage
What do we want to do?
- Develop a food strategy
- Map existing and developing activity
- Connect and create food growers in allotments, community growing spaces and at home
- Develop a local food economy
- Celebrate good quality, local food
Please come to one of our events, talk to us on Facebook or contact us to find out more.
A housing association, we have signed up to 20 Capital Growth growing plots in four boroughs, of which Lambeth is one. We have eight different projects in various states of development; a great, resident led one in Tulse Hill, one that requires creative woodworking in a medium level support unit. Keen to link up with other food growers and involve residents in the wider picture. For example, where can we all get compost from now Veolia have stopped delivering it?
Hello Steve,
Anyone can make their own compost, its easy and quicker than what people think. I can help out with household or community composting, pokeeffe@lambeth.gov.uk 0207 926 8948
Also we have joined the national compost bin scheme for cheaper compost bins and other supplies, http://www.lambeth.getcomposting.com
Hi Steve,
I work for The Challenge in Lambeth, which is a youth and community programme for 15/16 year olds (www.the-challenge.org). I would love to get some of our young people involved in food growing projects, would this be possible with the housing association you work for or do you know of any projects that would be suitable?
Many thanks
Love what you guys are doing and that you are using our logo and if you eat your in slogan. Would be great if you could write a piece for our website we would love to publish you, just email me.
Great work more power to your trowel
Estelle at Incredible Edible Todmorden
Hi. 1) please be advised re The Streatham Common Community Garden for your blogroll / also could you do a homepage post ?
http://groupspaces.com/streathamcommoncommunitygarden
Hi Philip,
Done!
Cheers,
Dave.
Hi, I’ve just heard from Project Dirt about your call for volunteers to harvest fruit from old trees. Coincidentally I’ve just posted on my blog(deptford pudding) about this very subject, and about the founders of Abundance in Sheffield.
Any chance you could mention my blog and add me to your blogroll? I’m definitely adding Incredible Edible Lambeth to mine.
Keep it up
David
I have a dream: cabbage
I’ve posted this discussion starter on IEL page at Project Dirt, http://projectdirt.com/group/incredibleediblelambeth/forum/topics/i-have-a-dream-cabbage
Looking forward to seeing Ann and Dave and anyone else at the IEL Minty Tea Party tomorrow, and Ann coming along to give the IEL vision to the next cohort of 22 South London Master Gardeners at their foundation training!
What a great group! I’ve recently moved to Lambeth and am interested in what foraging is going on in the local area. Does this group get involved in foraging and are there any forthcoming events I could come to? Thanks!
Hi Rachael,
IEL doesn’t do foraging itself, but Invisible Food do.
There’s a link to their blog on our blogroll.
Cheers,
Dave.
We have been running an Incredible Edible Lambeth harvest in partnership with the London Orchard Project. Contact David at david@thelondonorchardproject.org to be included in that email list. Also if you want to find others in your area to forage with contact ssheehan@lambeth.gov.uk and I will try to link you up with local people..
All the best
sue
Hi,
see some pictures of the Incredible Edible Lambeth Harvest Feast here, http://southlondon.mastergardeners.org.uk/2011/10/09/community-eating-incredible-edible-lambeth-harvest-feast/
Looking forward to more community eating!
Hello! Hannah here from Vauxhall City Farm. We’ve got a free workshop from 6 – 7:30 on Thursday 27th October called ‘Keeping chickens in your back garden’. It’s an introductory workshop for people who would like to know where to start and will include plenty of hands-on contact with the chooks themselves! It would be great if you would like to join us or can help us spread the word in any way.
We’re also happy to come out to other venues (with the chickens) and run this workshop for free, just get in touch.
For more information or if you would like a poster to put up please email me at vcfeducation@btconnect.com
Cheers!
We are updating our State of the Borough report, which is a digest of socio-demographic facts about Lambeth. We are considering including a section on co-production & co-operative working – is anyone aware of any data we could include? E.g. number of people involved in food production, etc? It sounds a bit hopeful, but worth asking.
We have a map of 123 food growing projects in thr borough. I can probably find some other bits.
Hello, I have recently moved into the area and am trying to find out about local community cooking skills projects. Could anyone let me know if there any around?
Thanks very much
Jo