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The Incredible Edible Food Hub is a new project, that will become central to the work that Incredible Edible Todmorden (IET) are doing to transform Todmorden, a small market town of 15,000, into a self-sufficient Local Food town.

The Master Gardeners programme will encourage and support people and communities to grow fruit and vegetables in their gardens and on local communal land.

Cities are reliant on distant supply chains for their food which with rising food prices, climate change and peak oil, are increasingly vulnerable. In addition we are suffering more than ever from problems of obesity and diet related disease.

Sustaining Sutton is an ambitious, holistic project aiming to increase access to local food in Sutton through stimulating local production, enhancing food growing skills, reducing food waste and enabling communities to lead healthy, balanced, low impact diets as part of a ‘One Planet Lifestyle’.

This project will reconnect children, their families and the wider community with the land as a source of food and to provide fresh locally produced organic meat, eggs and fruit/vegetables by developing the infrastructure to promote sustainable borough wide organic food-growing initiatives.

Ethical Eats is a fledgling network of caterers in London interested in sustainability. This bid will turn Ethical Eats into an influential membership organisation to transform eating out.

Global Generation in partnership with Camden Environmental Education Network (CEEN) will build on their current Local Food work to develop 16 new food growing sites in Camden (13 new and 3 existing) over the next three years, involving over 1000 children and young people, providing them with training, enterprise, employment and leadership opportunities.

Fruit-full Schools is a new project which aims to counteract England’s dramatic loss of traditional orchards.

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