Incredible Edible Huddersfield

1. Rachel's Tip week beginning 9th November 2009
(Growing/Rachel's Gardening Tips)

A good technique, at this time of year, is to cover any bare ground with some light excluding material to stop the weeds from growing. Carpet is ideal, several layers of cardboard weighed down with some ...

2. The mineral content of our food
(Growing/Vegetable Gardening)

... Anyone who has read Graham Harvey's book We Want Real Food will have heard of Moira and Cameron Thomson who took over 6-acres of desperately poor soil in the 1990s and now have a thriving organic growing ...

3. Should landowners be forced to give up space for allotments?
(Growing/Allotments & Community Space)

The Independent published an interesting article on 15th September on the parlous state of allotment availability, and asks "should land be requisitioned for growing?" ...

4. Tenants enjoy the benefit of Holme Grown
(Projects/Grow Your Own Projects)

... vegetables and they have only been growing a few months.    The tenants have also negotiated with Kirklees council land at the side of their estate to have their own community orchard.  ...

5. Stories from the Emley Show 2009
(News/Press Clippings)

... are here, I have given them a small piece of my garden.  They are growing beans, tomatoes and courgettes.  We are also having a sun flower competition. Their names are Charlie Wabo, Michael Mark and Niko ...

6. Incredible Edible Golcar: Results of Questionnaire
(Projects/Grow Your Own Projects)

... growing and caring for planters   Need contact I would like to see our local council replace all the roadside trees in residential area with fruit trees     Growing buddy system. Eye catching logo—slogan ...

7. Local Food, Seasonal Food
(Growing/Vegetable Gardening)

... ready to be picked and eaten as soon afterwards as possible. Below is a handy table of fruits and vegetables showing when they are available in Britain under normal growing conditions. In the north of ...

8. How can we grow food locally?
(Projects/Grow Your Own Projects)

Incredible Edible in the Golcar area has started growing raspberry canes and herbs on waste land. Local people have reclaimed land that was once outside toilets space and have had successful bean crops ...

9. Huddersfield and Holmfirth May 2009
(Projects/Project Ideas)

... plot, as well as those willing to give advice on growing from their years of experience.   In Holmfirth on the 10th May, we organised a mass onion planting. The Council gave us permission to plant ...

10. Pots don't have to be brown plastic!
(Growing/Vegetable Gardening)

... out this year into growing seedlings on in a range of reused pots, bottles and tins. I have become rather disillusioned with recycling of late. Most of the plastic we take into our house is recyclable ...

11. Seed and Seedling Exchange
(Growing/Vegetable Gardening)

... and held a raffle for gardening books and growing kits. Jo, Sarah, Norah and Sue send a big thank you to all the people who turned up to talk to us and take away ideas and plants for their own vegetable ...

12. Holme Grown Meeting 11th March
(Projects/Grow Your Own Projects)

This meeting will take place at Holmfirth Library on Wednesday 11th March between 7.30pm and 8.30pm The Agenda: ROYD’S AVENUE COMMUNITY GARDEN •    Linked with Wooldale School growing initiative and Royd’s ...

13. Who needs a garden?
(News/Press Clippings)

The Guardian has published an article on the search for land for growing, up and down the country, and featuring Incredible Edible Todmorden. Read the full article here. ...

14. We need space to grow
(Projects/Project Ideas)

Do you know of any waste land that could be used for growing food? Do you have a garden or portion of a garden which you would be prepared to let a friend or neighbour cultivate in return for a supply ...

15. Holme Grown
(Projects/Grow Your Own Projects)

... but the group aims to encourage anyone, whether on a different allotment site or growing in their own garden. In addition, one of the gardeners is a volunteer on a Green Gym, promoting physical activity ...

16. Constitution
(About Us/Constitution)

... a culture and opportunities for growing food, cooking and sourcing local produce •    To build on the wealth of voluntary sector engagement in Huddersfield and its surrounding areas, to develop new links ...

17. Projects at the planning stage
(Projects/Project Ideas)

... if you can help with any of these: In Huddersfield: Huddersfield University Campus growing initiative (town centre) Huddersfield Town Centre Plant Sale 9th May 2009 (and possibly those in June and July ...

18. Growing space for town centre cafes
(Projects/Public Edible Planters)

It may be small beginnings, but enthusiasm is spreading. In December 2008, Barry Sheerman, Labour MP for Huddersfield, accepted a planter full of growing herbs and vegetables on behalf of the Verve Cafe ...

19. Introducing Incredible Edible Huddersfield
(About Us/Introduction)

... and clothing. Incredible Edible Huddersfield aims to address these uncertainties by:     1.  growing good food on land as close as possible to where the food will be consumed     2.  building community ...

20. Growing
(Section)