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
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
‘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
Our last session of Seed2Seed Foundation Course for 2011
This Saturday will be the completion for 8 students of a wonderful journey of learning and discovery. They all started last March and have covered some amazing sessions around the themes of : Growing Life and Food in our most cemented places. See below. We are about to launch out our Seed2Seed course 2012 with … Read more
Volunteering this week and other news…
A warm hello as the days shorten and the winter wraps around our shoulders The roof however is still in activity and this week we have 2 opportunities for you to join us, work, play and learn with us during our volunteer sessions: Wednesday 2nd Nov- ALL WELCOME 10:00 to 13:00 Bring (all optional): warm … Read more
Exciting Events on the roof this Oct!
OPEN DAY and WORKING DAY : Volunteers needed for the day, come tomorrow between 10:00 and 13:00 if you are interested Tour, games, working and fun activities, talks and the launch of our partnership with Buglife FOOD from the SKY Mini Meadow seed packets PDF and The Heritage Seed Library Saturday 1st Oct On our … Read more
