Urban food for thought

Aug 8, 2016

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Steve Ott

in News

Each issue of London Essays, which is available free online, focuses on a single theme, and this time it’s London’s food scene.

The latest issue of London Essays includes an inspiring piece about Capital Growth, the London food-growing network, which set out to create 2,012 new food-growing spaces in the capital by the year 2012, and now has over 2,500 signed up. ‘In the last few years, thousands of acres of derelict land in London have been turned over to community growing. Urban farming has brought benefits that go way beyond locally sourced potatoes and cabbages,’ says Sarah Williams in her introduction to ‘Street Food’.

Each issue of London Essays, which is available free online, focuses on a single theme, and this time it’s London’s food scene. Other essays include ‘Poor Relief’, a thought-provoking piece on the politics of food banks by leading food writer Joanna Blythman, and ‘Decarbonising Food’ by Kath Dalmeny, Co-ordinator of Sustain, which sets out how to eat well within global environmental limits.

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About the author

Steve Ott

Steve Ott is editor of Kitchen Garden magazine and started his career as a professional grower, producing everything from cut flowers to vegetables. He has been growing fruit and veg all his life and spends most of his spare time in his garden in the East Midlands. He loves to experiment with crops and varieties he has never grown before and when he isn’t gardening is to be found out in the countryside bird watching and walking his dog Ted.

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