On 4th February 2020, Capital Growth and the Greater London Authority hosted an event at St Lukes Community Centre to look at how we would get more agreo-elogocal food grown in and around London.

Read event write up

Find below a selection of presentations/notes from some of our speakers at the event.

Alice Brown - Farm Manager at Sutton Community Farm  

• 'The opportunities and challenges of running a farm in London'

Julie Brown - Director of Growing Communities 

• 'The importance of routes to market' (slides)

Julie Brown - Director of Growing Communities  

• 'The importance of routes to market' (notes)

Vicki Hird - Farming Campaign Coordinator at Sustain 

• 'Why increase production and what this could look like in London' 

Brian Kelly - Director of Organiclea 

• 'Fulfilling the potential of peri-urban farming'

Rich Osborn - Founder of Fresh Range

• 'The potential for public procurement'

Claire Pritchard - Chair of London Food Board at GLA 

• Peri-urban farming conference slides

Mark Walton - Executive Director of Shared Assets 

• 'Lessons from ‘Urbanising in Place’ 

Sarah Williams - Programme Manager at Sustain 

• 'Why a focus on the urban fringe?'