Save the Date: Friday 16th of March – join us for Capital Growth BIG DIG event!
Join FOOD from the SKY team for Capital Growth Big Dig event! We’d love you to join us for a giant seeding day and help start our 2nd plastic bottle ‘greenhouse’! Please register at http://www.capitalgrowth.org/events/big_dig/ Big Dig is a London-wide event involving many growing spaces around the city. Help them meet the goal of 1000 … Read more
Hello from new Coordinator Sarah & weekly update
Happy Monday to you all, A reminder to visit the roof this Wednesday and Friday for our work days. Wednesday Working with Azul on the roof 10am – 1pm Please arrive on time at 10am for check in and work brief Remember to bring: plenty of warm clothing (all weather gear), strong shoes, gloves, flask … Read more
Welcome to Sarah! Our new Manager/Coordinator
EXCITING NEWS!!! After many interviews, more meetings and cups of teas and working things out Sarah McFadden is stepping in as the Manager/coordinator of FOOD from the SKY. With the crucial and important input from Jack Astbury, the volunteers, the apprentices and the directors Andrew Thornton, Silvio Caputo, Sarah Williams, Azul-Valerie Thome, she will hold, … Read more
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
