Growing From The Root
Twelve groups held events in their garden from July 2024 – July 2025 thanks to funding from the National Lottery Awards for All programme.IEL was able to support food growing
We support and advocate for access to healthy, affordable food, grown and produced locally.
Our dream? We see a future where there is a food growing space within 100m of each Lambeth home and each of our projects works to help make this possible.
Twelve groups held events in their garden from July 2024 – July 2025 thanks to funding from the National Lottery Awards for All programme.IEL was able to support food growing
We will work with residents to create thriving, biodiverse environments on selected housing estates in Lambeth from June 2024 to June 2025. Many estates are “green deserts” with only grass
Turning food scraps into black gold Over the past two years, we have worked with residents to install 14 community composting sites across Lambeth. People are now able to turn
Project 2023-24 Funded by Open University Food growers face multiple barriers to growing from lack of funding, bureaucratic obstacles and problems in securing land. From 2023 – 2024, two IEL
The IEL Youth Volunteers met on Saturday mornings at the West Norwood Library and Picturehouse during 2023. This was part of a pilot program with Lambeth Libraries providing youth with
About In 2017 Incredible Edible Lambeth together with Lambeth Council launched the Blooming Lambeth Awards to highlight and celebrate the incredible food growers in Lambeth. Each year we recognise gardens
We were very excited work in partnership with Arup in 2020, who facilitated research mapping to identify the existing and potential food growing spaces across the whole borough, building a
Project 2021-22 Funded by Arup IEL worked with Arup, the landscape architecture consultants, on a research project to better understand the barriers, challenges and opportunities for community food growing in
Grow Back Greener provided six groups with mentoring and funding to design and install new gardens, and to improve biodiversity and food growing with ways to look after the land
Project 2021 Funding :The London Community Foundation Along with several of our partners and our local gardens and gardening groups we were able respond to Lambeth’s communities affected by the
IEL campaigned for a reduction in mowing to support biodiversity in the borough. Pollinators are vitally important. Without pollinators there would be no fruit or veg, so we need to
Incredible Edible Lambeth led a campaign to stop the use of pesticides on Lambeth streets in 2019. We are experiencing a biodiversity crisis, with a catastrophic decline in insect life,