Category: Kitchen Garden

Starting your own Grow Zones group

What is Grow Zones?

All over the UK groups of people are discovering the delights of growing their own food. The Grow Zones project from EarthAbbey is a resource to help you get organised in your community. It aims to bring help and inspiration to your garden, wonderful food to your table, and fun and friendship to your life. A group of anything between 8 and 20 people club together to share skills and tools and help each other to transform their gardens, with the aim of growing more fruit and veg, decreasing food miles and having great fun in the process. Some groups may choose to work a community space together instead of gardens.

The view from rural Cumbria

How does it feel to be living in the heart of the countryside and trying to put EarthAbbey principles into practice. Here is an inspiring vision from Cumbria for a prayer/centred rural community working the land.

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Unexpected consequences of working land

There is something special about working land. If others see you they talk to you about it. Before you know it they are joining in, and a community is forming. David Hughes records this magical process for us as he set out to transform a patch of wasteland that is part of the former Industrial Mill complex where he lives.

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The future of land

Following DEFRA’s discussion on sustainable farming has unearthed this gem, which seems to me to summarise the issues in the UK amazingly well.

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Bruce French from Tasmania points us to a vast range of edible food resources

We are grateful to Bruce French for an article about edible foods and his own journey. Did you know that there are about 20,000 edible plant species in the world? They represent a vast and largely untapped source of nourishment. Knowledge about these foods could help people in some of the poorest countries of the world.

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The Future of Our Food

Hilary Benn has announced plans to assess and change the way we produce our food. What does that mean for us?

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Sharing the planet with slugs

The slug could be seen as one of nature’s great recyclers, taking up and digesting decaying vegetable matter, but when they eat our seedlings, well that is a different matter.

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Guerilla Gardening or just caring for the lane?

It has been ten years like it. A mass of brambles, ivy and wild rose, growing from the land bordering the lane and over our wooden fence. Our fence had broken and, in repairing it, I discovered a beautiful old stone wall. It was then I decided something had to be done. The only problem was, it was not our land.

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A short film about Grow Zones

There have been a few posts over the spring about Grow Zones, EarthAbbey’s local food through permaculture project. Here is a little movie that tells the story. Grow Zones will be back in the autumn and next spring.

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more grow zones

This morning Bruce, Sara, Chris, Bobbie, Elaine and Alan from Earth Abbey’s brilliant grow zone project came round to help transform our garden. Our garden is tiny – just 5x5m. Despite its size, we wanted to grow some of our own food, as well as continuing to enjoy the space for eating, drinking and relaxing and to maintain some of the flowers and shrubs. So, something of a challenge then! Amazingly, in less than 3 hours, the garden was transformed.

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