Urban food growing for climate and community resilience

This work, led by London Food Growing network Capital Growth, will help tackle the climate and nature emergency by protecting and increasing opportunities for nature-friendly food growing across the capital. The funding will help demonstrate and enhance the role urban food gardens can and should play in addressing and mitigating, climate change and nature loss, in London, as well as in creating community resilience.

Launched in Summer 2021, this project is funded for 3 years.

As part of this new focus, we have initiated the Spotlight Garden programme to shine a light on the increasingly important role community food growing spaces and communities play in tackling the climate and nature emergency and to make the case for their protection.  

Spotlight Gardens are London-based food growing gardens that actively work to build community and climate resilience through food growing. Starting in September 2021, we will work with ten gardens each year to better understand and share their crucial role. Each month will feature a different Spotlight Garden to our networks, highlighting their individual experiences and food growing activities. Follow their stories on our social media.

Want to get involved?

Are you interested in highlighting the links between urban food growing and the climate and nature emergency? Are you already growing your own or involved with a community garden in London? Or do you work at a London council supporting food growing initiatives? If yes, why not start by taking the following actions:

• Join the Capital Growth network 
• Sign up to our food growing training programme
• Contact us about joining the project's leaders group
• Tell us you'd like to be featured as a Spotlight Garden

We'd love to hear from you if you have ideas about, or are already working on, making the case for protecting urban food gardens, accessing more space for food growing and making the link between urban food growing and the climate agenda.

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This project is made possible thanks to funding from the City Bridge Trust and the GLA.