- For better school food, and food skills, and protecting children from junk food marketing
- Evidence of the contribution of food and farming to climate change
- Highlighting the connections between diet, mental health and behaviour
- How action can protect the environment, enhance social justice and improve health
- Campaigning for a law on healthy and sustainable food for schools, hospitals, care homes
- Practical help to increase healthy and sustainable food in schools, hospitals, care homes…
- Local and regional activity that promotes healthy and sustainable food
- Helping producers, consumers, retailers and caterers provide healthy and sustainable food
- Reconnecting people and land through local food
- Working for sustainable food at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Practical advice for anyone interested in buying and using more sustainable food
- Spreading information about urban food growing in London, the UK and worldwide
- 2,012 new food growing spaces by the end of 2012
- Demonstrating and promoting the benefits of urban agriculture
- An informal network of London restaurants and catering businesses that care about sustainability
- Find or set up a Food Co-op in your area
- Inspired by the London 2012 Food Vision, the campaign for healthy and sustainable food in catering
- Sustainable food news in London
- For bread made with natural ingredients
- Challenging businesses and citizens to make London the world's first Sustainable Fish City
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This is a report of a visit to urban food growing projects in the United States by a group of four people from different organisations based in London. It was organised by Sustain's London Food Link officer, Ben Reynolds, and funded by the US Embassy, who had previously brought Will Allen to London to talk about his project, Growing Power, in the USA.
Contents
Summary
1. Introduction
Why grow food in cities?
Background to the visit to the US cities
2. City visits
Milwaukee
Growing Power Community Food Center
Maple Tree Community Garden
Walnut Way
Riverwest food co-op
Chicago
Growing Power
Grant Park – Urban Agriculture Potager
Chicago Avenue Community Garden Partnership
Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance
Homegrown Chicago
Jackson Park
Kendall College
Chicago’s Youth Program
Growing Home
Angelic Organics
Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council
New York
Added Value – Red Hook Farm
East New York Farms – United Community Gardens
NY Sunworks: The Science Barge
3. What we learned
Public and private funding and access
Laws – animals and composting
Fencing
Growing on concrete
Aquaculture
4. Opportunities for growing more food in more cities
Tree planting
Royal Parks
Allotments
Under-utilised spaces
Parks
Derelict council facilities
Private gardens
Social housing
Alternative growing spaces – roof gardens, beehives and mushrooms
Commercial growing
Existing expertise
Appendix 1 The UK Delegation
Appendix 2 Links
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