19 results
GBTodmorden, United Kingdom
A citizen movement in a small UK town planting free-to-harvest crops in public gaps. Its 'edible town' concept has spread to communities worldwide.
incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A community resource in the London Borough of Lewisham for better mental health. In its green spaces people grow and cook food and make art together, a leading social-prescribing site supporting recovery and empowerment.
centreformentalhealth.org.uk+1
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A movable organic garden built inside builders' skips in the middle of the King's Cross redevelopment in London. Made largely (~90%) from reclaimed materials, with beehives and bug hotels, it turned a gap space into a site for youth education and community.
globalgeneration.org.uk+1
GBLondon (national), United Kingdom
Launched in 2007 by the Royal Horticultural Society, this is the UK's largest school-gardening campaign. It gives children aged 2–18 opportunities to grow plants and connect with nature, supporting over 30,000 schools and groups and some 2.1 million children, and promotes gardening as a teaching tool through teacher training and resources.
rhs.org.uk+1
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A rooftop community garden at IKEA's flagship Greenwich store (opened 2019), where a retailer combines branding with citizen participation by opening the space free to the community.
ikea.com
GBGlasgow, United Kingdom
A Glasgow program (since 2011) putting stalled development sites to interim use as citizen gardens, with the city enabling temporary use via short-term leases and grants — a leading overseas example.
glasgow.gov.uk
GBLondon, United Kingdom
World's first underground farm, growing pesticide-free leaves under LED hydroponics in Clapham's WWII tunnels.
cnbc.com+1
GBLondon, United Kingdom
The UK's first commercial aquaponic vertical farm, in a Beckton warehouse (closed end of 2017).
medium.com+1
GBLondon, United Kingdom
Valued as an environmental asset mitigating pollution, but lost to housing redevelopment.
andyworthington.co.uk+1
GBSipson, London, United Kingdom
An ~11-year squatted community garden born from opposition to Heathrow expansion.
en.wikipedia.org+1
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A historic allotment promised 'in perpetuity', swept away for the Olympics.
en.wikipedia.org+1
GBLondon (Beckton), United Kingdom
One of London's oldest city farms, run by Newham Council. In 2022 its closure was decided as part of the borough's austerity budget (a further £7.6M of cuts).
newhamrecorder.co.uk+1
GBEdinburgh, United Kingdom
One of Scotland's leading urban farms. Falling external funding and rising costs forced it into liquidation and closure in November 2019, with 18 job losses, as its grant-dependent finances collapsed.
bbc.co.uk+1
GBCoventry (Hillfields), United Kingdom
An inner-city farm opened in 1983 on Clarence Street, Hillfields. When the council withdrew its annual grant and reserves ran dry, a fundraising drive fell short and it closed in 2008 after 25 years.
coventrytelegraph.net+1
GBLondon, United Kingdom
Citizen science project quantifying crop yields from London community gardens during 2019-2020 growing seasons to demonstrate urban farming productivity
digitalcommons.lmu.edu
GBLondon, United Kingdom
Started in 1977 as Jubilee City Farm by a group of architects squatting at St Oswald's Place, in a Vauxhall neighbourhood cleared by demolitions between 1972 and 1976. Now in the London Borough of Lambeth, it keeps alpacas, sheep, goats, pigs, donkeys and ponies and works across education, youth work, animal care and horticulture.
en.wikipedia.org
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A 13-hectare (32-acre) urban farm and park in Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs, Tower Hamlets, east London. The site had been a dumping ground for dock excavation spoil since the 1860s; when the Port of London Authority moved to transfer it for housing in the early 1970s, the Association of Island Communities ran a successful campaign to keep it as public open space, and the farm was established in 1977.
en.wikipedia.org
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A 1.3-acre city farm in Tower Hamlets, east London, close to Brick Lane. It started in 1978 as an allotment site on the wasteland left by a former railway goods depot, later added animals to become a city farm, and achieved charity status in 1980.
en.wikipedia.org
GBLondon, United Kingdom
A city farm of about 4.2 acres in Stepney, east London, founded in 1979 by Lynne Bennett as 'Stepping Stones' on the wasteland left after the Stepney Congregational Church was destroyed by bombing in 1941. It combines livestock, a community garden, a farmers' market and traditional craft workshops.
en.wikipedia.org