The roof’s life in May in photos for your enjoyment and ours! :-)

May harvest by grower,apprentices and volunteers

A warm welcome to Chrissy and Ed the new apprentices!

Jack and I are really excited to welcome Chrissy and Ed, the new apprentices of FOOD from the SKY! Chrissy and Ed will learn and grow with Jack and all the directors for the next 9 months.  They will be on the roof 2 days a week and will join some of the Saturdays as well as some of the … Read more

Our fantastic urban food growing course, Seed2Seed 2013, is ready to take your bookings

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OUR FREE TASTER SESSION SATURDAY 2nd March 2pm to 4pm, all welcome! Seed2Seed 2013 – Co-run and hosted by Azul, Jack and Natalie Foundation course in Urban Life&Food Growing A unique opportunity to learn about food growing from seed to seed and go on a real journey from March to Nov one Saturday a Month. … Read more

Jack, our head urban grower, welcomes you on Tuesdays & Fridays from February!

Jack the Grower! :-)

We are all very excited to let you know that from Tuesday 5th February 2013 Jack will be working 2 days a week- growing and developing our growing space with volunteers and 2 new apprentices ( more about them very soon). Our weekly volunteer days will now be held every Tuesdays and Fridays: TUESDAYS:Tuesdays from … Read more

Urban food grower – Apprenticeship opportunities at FOOD from the SKY- closing date for application: Monday 14th Jan

FOOD from the SKY – Apprenticeship 2013 We are looking for 2 apprentices   Application deadline Monday 14th Jan 2013   Pioneering food growing project Food from the Sky (FFTS) is offering two apprentice positions for the 2013 growing season. The post is designed to give a budding grower all the knowledge and experience to … Read more

Apprenticeship opportunity for 2013 at FOOD from the SKY with Jack our grower!

Jack @ FOOD from the SKY on the roof of Thornton's Budgens of Crouch End

FOOD from the SKY – Apprenticeship 2013 – Interviews are this month, January 2013 (see details at bottom of post) We are looking for 2 apprentices Pioneering food growing project FOOD from the SKY (FFTS) is offering two apprentice positions for the 2013 growing season. The post is designed to give a budding grower all … Read more

Step by Step – Make your own Permaculture No Dig raised bed

Food from the Sky - raised bed

Raised Bed Workshop- Step by Step  Using raised beds can be a great way to grow crops in small spaces.  Building them involves less digging and soil disturbance than dug beds as organic matter is simple layered on top of the earth (usually mulched first with a thick layer of cardboard) and worms and micro … Read more

Seed2Seed 2012 is complete… it was a great success!

Seed2Seed 2012

  What is the students said about SEED2SEED 2012? Inspiring , informative, fun, I learned a lot easily and with very supportive teachers. Gillian Edwards Fun, informative and an incredible diverse introduction to the world of Permaculture. I liked meeting other like minded people wanting to learn more about permaculture and working through the different … Read more

Our first Bug Hotel is created – The BugHemian Hotel from the SKY

FOOD from the SKY- Bug Hotel

Today we made our first BugHemian Hotel – a Bug Hotel for the Bohemian types… on the roof of FOOD from the SKY. 6 people met on a cold, bright and very windy day.  We gathered some photographs to inspire, then pallets, natural objects/material and went for it! Our creativity started flowing as we shared ideas … Read more

Bug Hotel from the SKY – Making one starting this Saturday

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Would you like to come and join our Volunteering working day (last Saturday of each month)?We are going to start our very first Bug Hotel inspired by the two photos here….chic Paris or Shabby chic UK? We will meet at 12noon to 4pm to learn and have fun together BRING: Lunch to share please try … Read more

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  • Thornton’s Budgens of Crouch End

    Thornton's Budgens Crouch End
  • Esmee Fairbain Foundation

  • capital growth/Sustain

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