one year on... - Islington Council

Edible Islington on Project DirtGroups are encouraged to use The Edible Islington group of ‘Project Dirt’ to communicate with eachother, advertise their growing events or show-off their bumper harvest!Project dirt is a site that provides individuals, community groups, companies, organisations and localauthorities a platform to come together and work on tangible green projects.To join, visit www.projectdirt.org. Sign up (it’s free) and search for ‘Edible Islington’. Request tobecome a member of the project. Then feel free to post your food growing events and pictures,communicate with other members of your group or with other Edible Islington groups.Map of Edible Islington projectsA map of Edible Islington sites is available on the Islington Council website. This map serves as adatabase for Edible Islington projects to locate each other and network to share skills, swap seedsor simply exchange ideas. www.islington.gov.uk/edibleislingtonLocal LeadsCapital Growth has launched a local leads programme appointing a local organisation in eachborough to run a local food growing network.The local leads for Islington are St. Luke’s Community Centre and Freightliners City Farm. Theseorganisations will build on local activity and initiatives and develop further opportunities for localfood –growing projects to share information, resources and develop ideas. Please contact theseorganisations directly for further information.Capital GrowthFrom the start of the campaign, Edible Islington worked closely with Capital Growth, London’scampaign to set up 2012 food growing space by the end of the <strong>year</strong> 2012. Edible Islington projectswho are Capital Growth members are eligible for support provided by Capital Growth. Furtherinformation is available at http://www.capitalgrowth.org/Further support from the CouncilIslington Council is committed to providing ongoing support to food growing groups wherevermark.rowe@islington.gov.uk23