Edible Estates Competition

Supporting food growing on London’s housing estates

In June 29th 2010 we launched the Edible Estates Competition at City Hall with the Mayor of London.  The aim was to encourage more residents of housing estates to start their own food growing spaces. The competition has produced great results, including four Housing Associations committing to supporting new food growing spaces on their housing estates, and a total of 40 communities participating in the competition.

Capital Growth would like to thank all the participants for their efforts in developing these food growing spaces.  You are all winners!

Winners were anounced at the Edible Estates Conference, for more details on the conferecne click here

	Plants and People Winner: Parkside Growing Plot (Islington) Runner up: Cottington Estate TMO (Lambeth) Runner up: SGFG CLUB (Haringey)
	Collect and Create Winner: Welcare Greenwich (Greenwich) Runner up:Greening Brownfield (tower hamlets) Runner up: Haberdasher TRA gardening club (Hackney)
	Best Estate Garden Winner: Somerford and Shacklewell Estate (Hackney) Runner up: GreEn16 (Newham) Runner up: Rocky Park Urban Growers (Tower Hamlets)

Click here to see more pictures of the winners and runners up

This competition, although drawing some inspiration from Fritz Haeg's brilliant book of the same name, is not linked to him.