Volunteering this week on the roof

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  • FOOD from the SKY

    ‘FOOD from the SKY’ is a world first – A pioneering Permaculture food growing and educational initiative on the roof top of Thornton’s Budgens supermarket, Crouch End, North London. 'A new template for our future'.

    OUR VISION:

    ‘To grow Life, Food and Community in our most cemented places and to bring the Heart back in our supermarkets!'

    Food from the SKY is about inspiring and growing a healthy and sustainable relationship with food in cities and with our supermarkets.

    We are doing this through food growing on roofs and running educational programmes for individuals, schools, supermarket’s team members and organisations.

    By establishing an alternative approach to food production and consumption, we intend to build a 12 steps template that can be easily used by other community groups, supermarkets and organisations.

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Volunteering this week on the roof

Hello all We are wishing you all a radically responsible and ferociously loving New Year 2012 for you, your dear ones and for Life! I (Azul) am just back from Mexico full of beans and looking forward to being with volunteers this week: Wednesday 25th Jan between 10am and 1pm – Azul Please arrive a … Read more

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Seed2Seed – Foundation Course 2012 – Time to enroll!

BEST WINTER GIFT FOR YOURSELF, AN OTHER AND OUR EARTH! Do you love Life and Food and live in the City with a balcony or a garden ?  Do you want to learn how to grow organically and create an environment for bees and butterflies with other like minded people?  Do you want to go … Read more

Filed under Permaculture, Bees, Biodynamic, Education and training, Learning, seed2seed, Biodiversity

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LAST WEEK to apply and send your job application!

We are very excited to offer the manager&coordinator position to take over from Azul (co-creator and project leader) who is moving on to new fields and directions. We are Looking for a Part time Manager to take over from Azul from February 2012.  ( February will be the passing over time and you will start … Read more

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We are looking for a Part time Manager&Coordinator for 2012

We are very excited to offer the manager&coordinator position to take over from Azul (co-creator and project leader) who is moving on to new fields and directions. We are Looking for a Part time Manager to take over from Azul from February 2012.  ( February will be the passing over time and you will start … Read more

Filed under Feature post, Pionneering

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WARM WINTER CELEBRATIONS!

IMPORTANT- the roof will be CLOSED between Thu 22nd Dec & Tue 3rd Jan. Then it will only be open on Wednesdays between 10am and 1pm and Fridays 9am to 4pm for the whole of January. No Saturdays working days  until next February. xxxxx Azul, Aya, Jack, Andrew, Vince, Paul, Jane, Maria, Sarah, Silvio, Susie, … Read more

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‘Grow it’ Magazine! Nice article, thank you Shannon!

Real growers – Shenny Denny’s article below. Sky-high ambitions Shannon Denny meets Azul-Valerie Thome, the green-fingered activist whose work with Food from the Sky may well turn the world of supermarkets upside down ALL IMAGES: FOOD from the SKY Sustainability informs everything in the space, with pallets and other up-cycled materials providing planting spots. Rain … Read more

Filed under 2011 @ FFTS, About, Bees, Biodiversity, Biodynamic, Education and training, Feature post, Learning, Media Coverage, News from the roof, Permaculture, Volunteering

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Our new film: FOOD from the SKY the stories of 2011

OUR NEW FILM IS OUT!!! Freshly baked this morning by Ayako who created a lovely creation telling some of the stories, talks, poetry, images, connections and collaborations of our year 2011 on the roof of Thornton’s Budgens.  It is like what Khalil Gibran says:  Work is Love made Visible. Thank you warmly to Andrew, Aya, … Read more

Filed under 2011- Events, Talks and Courses, About, Bees, Biodiversity, Biodynamic, Education and training, Events, Feature post, Films, Funding, Junior schools on the roof, Learning, Media Coverage, News from the roof, Permaculture, Photos of project, Pionneering, seed2seed, Students grow mushrooms, the Garden of Bengladesh, Videos, Volunteering, Workshops

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Apprentice Grower opportunity with Jack our Urban Farmer

We are looking for an Apprentice Grower to work with  Jack our wonderful Urban Farmer 1 – 2 days a week on our roof garden in Crouch End.(Fridays + an other day) The post is designed to give a budding grower the knowledge and experience to grow salads and other crops to commercial organic standard … Read more

Filed under Education and training, Feature post, Learning, News from the roof, Volunteering

BBC4 Food and Farming Awards 2011- We are short listed for best Retail Initiative!!!

What a priviledge and an honour to be one of the 3 short listed for the BBC4 Food and Farming Awards 2011 – Best Retail Initiative with Thornton’s Budgens. Birmingham NEC is not what you would call the most exciting and beautiful environment, however the people, the vision, the heart, the spirit of all the … Read more

Filed under About, Events, Feature post, Media Coverage

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We are blessed and celebrated!

We have been blessed with a beautiful poem! Up on the Roof Garden in the Classroom in the Sky (Written by Wendy Rowan to celebrate Seed2Seed Foundation Course 2011)     Spring, the season of new life and re-birth Planting seeds in the rich, moist earth Peas & beans in troughs & tins Leaves & … Read more

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  • Thornton’s Budgens of Crouch End

    Thornton's Budgens Crouch End

  • Esmee Fairbain Foundation

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