Meeting set to discus growing interest in fruit and vegetables in abandoned public spaces
HOW to grow an independent fruit and vegetable supply is to be discussed at a public meeting.
Incredible Edible Loughborough is to hold its first public meeting since it launched focusing on how people can find their own solutions to the supply of fresh food by growing in neglected public spaces.
“The food we grow is free for the community to help themselves to and conversations show how enthusiastic people in the area have been about this,” said local organiser Julian Rees.
Mr Rees said they aim to connect people by growing free, healthy food for local people on local land with minimal CO2 emissions and no damage to wildlife or soil.
People are invited to have a say on how they would like to use land in the town to grow food at Fearon
Hall Community Centre on Wednesday, February 15 at 7pm. Incredible Edible has 148 groups in the UK and around 1,000 worldwide connecting people through growing food on disused spaces. The group in Loughborough has two spaces where they grow; on the corner of Cambridge Street and another on Rectory Road, next to Fearon Hall.
The group says our food system is broken with big business making vast profits while some people can’t afford to eat.
“In the six months to September 2022 the Trussell Trust gave out 1.3 million food parcels while in the year to March 2022 the CEO of a major supermarket took home a salary of £3.8 million,” said the group.
Food accounts for 37 per cent of emissions globally making it one of the biggest drivers of climate change.
The food we grow is free for the community to help themselves to Incredible Edible’s Julian Rees