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
Stuck for activities this Easter weekend?…come and garden in the sky!
For those of you who aren’t heading away this Easter weekend, we’d love to see you on the roof! There are plenty of fun, interesting tasks to help out with – including: sowing basil and tomato seeds, re-planting, suspending our hanging seed trays, extending our raised bed in the greenhouse, and much more! Meet other … Read more
Welcoming your creativity this Wednesday
News from the roof… It’s very exciting to have our strawberry plants nearly ready for sale! Expect to see them in the shop by Friday at the latest! We’d love to hear your creative ideas for decorating plant pots, and this will be a task we can tackle with volunteers this week… So, the week’s … Read more
Start your week with a delicious and healthy salad
We had a bountiful harvest this week, so there is lots of FOOD from the SKY salad to get your hands on in Thornton’s Budgens Crouch End Our salad bags feature a vast variety of greens to satisfy everyones tastes. At the moment we’re specialising in many oriental varieties, they have fantastic flavour and keep … Read more
Weekend wonderfulness and a special party this Wednesday!
Our Seed2seed food growing course: FREE taster session on Saturday was a big success! Despite the grey, rainy weather 25 people braved the wet conditions to join us on the roof (a true test of their commitment to the reality of gardening – often the weather can provide challenging conditions!). Assembled snugly under our makeshift … Read more
Mother Earth Healing Day from our roof this Mothering Sunday
Mother’s Day Earth Healing – A Ceremony and a Silent Sacred Walk to our River 1pm to 5:30pm – Sunday 18th March I dont know about you but I feel that it is time to step UP. It feels to me that it is time to step up and respond to the call – to … Read more
This week: an abundance of spring events to get involved in!
We have a very busy week at FOOD from the SKY. There is loads to get involved in, and now we’re on the cusp of spring officially beginning there couldn’t be a better time to get outside in the garden! Or in our case – the roof! Wednesday – work day with volunteers (regular or … Read more
Rain, glorious rain!
We had a productive day with volunteers on the roof this Saturday…see our new raised bed extension completed by Ben, Fred and Sebastian. It was definitely a day of gender stereotypes…while the men were building the raised bed, the women in our group were cleaning and sorting out our (previously very disorganised) storage shed! Check … 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













