our growing Vision
A warm welcome to you from FOOD from the SKY !
Our Vision is: To grow Life, Food and Communities on our most cemented places & to plant seeds in people heart!
‘food from the sky‘
is a collaboration between Thornton’s Budgens supermarket in North London and Azul-Valerie Thome – It is a Permaculture community garden growing food to sell in the supermarket below while providing a learning and educational space for the different part of the communities.
We are growing vegetables, fruits, mushrooms and herbs grown to organic standard with children and other members of our diverse community – sold through the store 8 metres below. We harvest every Friday, so for the freshest, local produce check out our display stand in the Budgens store.
seed2seed: We are in our second year running a training programme, a foundation course on food growing, biodiversity and on living a sustainable life in the city called seed2seed . They are aimed at children and elders alike and cover basic common sense about living a conscious, gentle and courageous life on our planet. We are also developing a series of workshops for teachers and for people in the food industry.
Local students create a mushroom growing enterprise on the roof
‘food from the sky’ is run by a local project manager and by local volunteers.
We have started a pioneering project that we aim to set up as sustainably as possible following the ancient roots of the Permaculture ethics – Earth care /People care and Fairshare
We are also planning to have a few Warre hives in the near future, following the Natural bee keeping method. We will provide courses in the summer on the roof.
Our project is addressing issues like ‘food security’, ‘deep biodiversity’, resilience, retailing and how we can affect change from within the industry, using food as a fertile and healthy vehicle for change.
Thornton’s Budgens team of 200 people, the volunteers and many unseen relationships are enriching our lives here in Crouch End.
We are putting together a template in the form of a Book, for other organisations and supermarkets to meet their CSR in a dynamic and beautiful way involving our full community of the young and the old humans, bumble bees, butterflies and other bugs, wild flowers and organic food while keeping in mind that we need to leave our Home better than when we found it. Life is back on our roof!
