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
Transitioning Delight yesterday! Thank you all!
Here is an article about yesterday from the Transition Culture Blog, thank you! http://transitionculture.org/2011/10/13/a-tale-of-two-book-launches-and-announcing-today%E2%80%99s-virtual-twitter-one/ The Totnes event wasn’t dependent on the weather, whereas the London event, on a rooftop 3 storeys up would have been a very different event had the heavens opened, or the wind picked up. In the event, it started out cloudy … Read more
Our Open Day on the 3rd Sept was AMAZING!
What a wonder-full day we all had yesterday! Here is a visual feast for you all. Hi everyone and thank you for being here Almost 100 people came up the scaffolding staircase to meet with us on a beautiful and exciting sunny Indian summer day! Thank you for taking the time to come, meet us, … Read more
Our new beautiful leaflet is ‘cooked’ and ready to share, thank you Neil!
Here is our very new leaflet just out of the oven ‘baked’ and ready to share. We hope you like it as much as we do. Thank you so much Neil Simmons for your talent, patience and pure generosity! It is beautiful
our Garden of Bangladesh is growing!
The vision of bringing into form the food of the land Bangladesh on a London roof garden is now a reality! Thornton’s Budgens team speaks 31 languages and come from many lands. FOOD from the SKY wanted to honour and learn from the different communities and foods celebrating a different one each year. We have … Read more
Boris Johnson visits FOOD from the SKY today!
It was fantastic to see Boris Johnson cycling from Islington to climbing up the stairs of the Food from the Sky roof this morning to celebrate the 1000th Capital Growth site opening. Together with his ‘Food Tsar’ Rosie Boycott, Boris got to see every aspect of our project . He chatted with students from Highgate … Read more
FEBRUARY on the roof…join us!
Have you heard the robins call this morning? Their songs spoke of life, hope, joy and of Spring. What does it have to do with the roof garden you might ask? Everything, join us and share the song with us. VOLUNTEERING in February Wednesdays 10am to 1pm (CLOSED on 23rd Feb) Saturday 5th Feb – … Read more
the Garden of Bangladesh has started!
Yesterday a dynamic, creative and knowledgeable group of women and men from Bangladesh responded to an invitation to create the Garden of Bangladesh on the roof of FOOD from the SKY. The invitation came out after a year of building relationships with the employees of Thornton’s Budgens sharing moving stories about their land and their … Read more
