Summer’s here!
The word of the week was ‘compost’…two tonnes was delivered to Thornton’s Budgens carpark on Wednesday, and with the help of many volunteers alongside the FOOD from the SKY team, those two tonnes were carried by container via the staircase to the roof top. Now only a few compost crumbs remain. It was not the … Read more
The special world of bees and other pollinators…and our firm new favourite – the Bumblebee!
A busy and beesy week…lots of good things to report back on! Everyone was glowing with inspiration following our second Seed2seed course session on Saturday. The topic was Bees and other Pollinators, taught by the wonderful Brigit Strawbridge. Brigit’s passion and enthusiasm for all things bees related was clear, she was a fantastic tutor, and … Read more
Crouch End Festival…continued…
Cloudy, rainy and rather cold too – was the start to our festival participation on Saturday…but we persevered, put up the gazebo cover and got on with activities as best we could. Of course as a roof garden there’s not much we can do to shelter from the weather, we’re used to donning the waterproofs … Read more
The roof was buzzing during our first Seed2Seed session
So our new friends have arrived…the bees are now settled on the FOOD from the SKY rooftop! Hurray! Late on Friday night our beekeeper Silvio was busy transporting the bees from Camden to their new home with us in Crouch End. They arrived onto the roof at about 11pm that night! Their arrival happened to … Read more
News, activities and salad galore!
Hope everyone had a lovely Easter weekend! It was great to see a few extra volunteers arriving to help with the harvest on Friday, thanks everyone. It was a HUGE harvest, so there should still be lots of salad available for those of you who weren’t around to pick up a bag or two at … Read more
Bees to join the FOOD from the SKY roof!
Exciting news… A colony of bees will join Food from the Sky rooftop later this month! We’re expecting the bees to arrive mid April. Coming straight from East Croydon, where David and Celia Rutland are currently taking care of them. We can’t wait for the bees to join us, and have been working on the … Read more
FOOD from the SKY is buzzing across the UK
March is an important time of the year to think about food growing. It’s a time to sow seeds and plan your planting schedule for the rest of the year. It’s an especially great time to sow wild flowers that will help to support our crucially important insect populations. (October is another great time of … Read more
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
‘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
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
