A forward-thinking city supermarket – Thornton’s Budgens in Crouch End – has given its roof over to be a vegetable patch in the sky. This community garden is being put together by local community volunteers and the positive earth project.
“The space on the roof is vast and full of potential – 400/500 m2 to start a pilot project that we aim to set up as sustainably as possible ( re-using, re-pairing and re-cycling as much as possible what can be found in our community) while growing, educating, promoting and selling ‘endangered vegetables’, fruits, mushrooms and herbs that will then be sold to the local community in the store below.
Our seeds will be then gathered, swapped and given away every year to the community.
We are also planning to have a few chickens (no foxes on roofs) and top bar bee hives in the near future, following the Natural bee keeping method.”
For more details you can check out the news article from the BBC or look at the Food from the Sky Ning networking site. If you’d like to support the project, they are currently in need of second-gand gardening tools and plant pots, polytunnel frames, wormeries, watering cans, a wheelbarrow, shelving units, mushroom inoculation logs and funding streams!