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The Castle Climbing Centre
The Castle is an indoor climbing centre run by climbers, for climbers, in a former Victorian water pumping station. It has climbing walls, instructors, a café, and a shop, as you’d expect. more

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The meat we eat

We’ve all heard the debates raging around eating less, but better quality, meat.  So why aren’t we listening?, asks Kelly Parsons. We’ve seen the newspaper headlines linking too much red and processed meat with cancer.  And we’ve known for a long time that saturated fat in meat and meat products increases our risk of heart disease.  We know about meat’s role in climate change.... more

Extremely cheap and incredibly close

Jonathan Safran-Foer, author of acclaimed US factory farming exposé ‘Eating Animals’, talks exclusively to the Jellied Eel about what this country can learn from the American experience. more

Teaching with tongues

Pancreas in St Pancras? No, tongue and cheek in King’s Cross. Ethical Eats’ Duncan O’Brien visits the offal stall that’s hoping to reignite our love for some old favourites. more

Meat, milk and the city

A ‘food history’ walk around inner London reveals little hints that animal welfare and food safety concerns are not just a modern issue, but go back to the 19th century. more

Bake Your Lawn: the grow a loaf challenge 2012
The Real Bread Campaign and Garden Organic are encouraging kids to ‘Bake Your Lawn’, and follow the Real Bread journey from seed to sandwich on their own doorsteps. more
Be a gold digger!
Grow for Gold is the biggest ever competition organised by Capital Growth, to support its now 1,500 food-growing spaces, and encourage even more communities to join the campaign and grow food. more
Regent's Park training NW1
The new season of Capital Growth training kicks off on Saturday 18 February, with Stefan Geyer’s Permaculture Design Taster. more
Farm in a barn N1
A new pop-up venture launched by Robert Barker, founder of Farm Direct, and Philip Dundas, pop-up cook and writer. more
Bloomsbury Farmers’ Market
Bloomsbury Farmers’ Market sounds like a food haven for the literati of London. more