By Olivia Oldham Credit: Vegan Vybes “For me, being in nature, being in the garden…that’s just where I vibrate.” These are the words of Lynda McFarlane, explaining why she was…
read moreCredit: May Project Gardens May Project Gardens is a grassroots organisation working from a permaculture-designed garden in Morden, London. Through facilitating food growing, exercise, meditation and cooking, and their youth…
read moreBy Dora Taylor Credit: Incredible Surplus For the team at The Real Junk Food Project Birmingham (RJFPB), Covid-19 highlighted the embedded food injustice that they exist to fight. RJFPB is…
read moreArtwork by: Hannah Grace In this episode, we visit one region – the West Midlands – to explore how the pandemic has highlighted connections between the local and the global,…
read moreBy Olivia Oldham Abigail Holsborough, Brixton Windmill During the first Covid lock-down, many of us turned to baking—as a way to pass the time, to reconnect with our heritage, to…
read moreBy Olivia Oldham Rosie Gray, Reviving Food In the Highlands of Scotland, not far from the mountain resort town of Aviemore, there is a bright yellow horsebox, decorated with colourful…
read moreBy Dora Taylor Owen Postgate, Rye Bakery Frome “My real passion is connecting with people, and showing my love for people through baking. Baking is a way of putting smiles…
read moreArtwork by: Hannah Grace At the start of lockdown, as supermarket shelves were cleared of flour, people who might not otherwise have thought to seek out a local bakery –…
read moreBy Dora Taylor No Diggity Gardens No Diggity Gardens is a no-dig, regenerative growing project in Walsall, near Birmingham. When the pandemic emerged at the start of the year, Neville…
read moreImage: Hannah Grace As lockdown came into effect, and supermarkets struggled to restock their fruit and vegetable aisles, the idea of “growing your own” took on a new significance. In…
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