presentation at transition bath event
TRANSCRIPT
Stronger communties
www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk
Trojan horse of food to change our future
Todmorden
17,000 PEOPLE
NORTH OF MANCHESTER WEST OF LEEDS
BORDER TOWN
3 STEEP VALLEYS, WINDSWEPT “TOPS”
15 ALLOTMENTS
BACK TO BACK HOUSING
FEW FULL TIME FARMERS LEFT
5 DAYS A WEEK INDOOR AND OUTDOOR MARKET
1 SENIOR AND 6 PRIMARY SCHOOLS
The ModelThree spinning plates.
One is boring, Two is clever ,
Three’s a show!
First Three Months
Seed and plant swaps start.
Propaganda gardens-every bodies food
Incredible parents
Food –we all do it.
Next 6 months
Doctors take a vote for veg.
750k school food hub bid to the lottery
Care Home gets the edible bug
Graveyard beds
Health Centre
Apothecary Garden
Every Todmorden school grows food
Food hub
Aquaponics unit
Students learn where food comes from
How to grow it
And how to cook it
Ferney Lee school beds replace tennis
Graveyard beds
And…….
School yard will never look the same
Every egg matters campaign.
Agriculture show- new growing section.
Community Pay Back do us proud
Harvest Festival
We can do it in anything!
Schools wellies entry for the show
Every egg matters
Bee Credible
Lost arts training
Cooking lessons in the street
Social Housing raised beds
Walsden Project
Volunteers get to work
Gorpley hill top growing site
Broad casting cereal seed at altitude
We Don’t Start With Nothing!
Public and Private LandVerges, Parks, Canal Corridors, Back Yards.
Market hallsHealth Centres
Social Care HomesSchools
Council BuildingsCanal banks
A Rainbow of Community Talents
And………….
• Fantastic Web site
• Job training
• 20011 new training scheme for high school
• Community pride
• A license to grow for the whole borough
• Vegetable tourism
• 43 egg producers
• Local food promotion for the market
And what does all this mean for Tomorden?
• Boys cops shop
• Canal bed
• Crumbly Jean/ Carls cheese
• New business opportunities
• 2 shots RW station
• New link with farmers
The new pickle empire
New Market methods
FIRST TODMORDEN CHEESE
Growing at the Police Station
Fire Station
Railway Station Beds
Ferney Lee Care Home
Some of our regular pickers
Vegetable Tourism
Todmorden’s Incredible Green Route
So how could this happen
everywhere ?
Take Any Community
Add a different approachto Regeneration
Such as
Build schools for the future that have the living edible world at their heart.
Transform health buildings with edible plants and trees as an integral part of the
design and workplace.
Release public land for food growing.
Encourage all social landlords to allocate space for growing.
We want this little fellow to grow up in a cleaner, greener, stronger world
www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk