Growing Sudley is a therapeutic gardening project that is nearing completion of a low-carbon retrofit of their building. This was presented to Transition Liverpool a few weeks ago. They also have a voluntary gardening session that is from two to four that’s held every Wednesday at the Sudley Estate in Liverpool.
The Right to Grow Campaign is a group started by Incredible Edible and Feeding Liverpool. The project is about getting the council to log growing spaces around the city so that community organisations can find them. It’s about increasing food-growing spaces in the city in collaboration with the council.
These projects are significant because they are trying to get people more in touch with where their food comes from. It’s an opportunity to empower local communities and democratise access to food. Which is quite necessary in the face of climate change concerning food security. The Right to Grow Campaign has a petition that can be found at Change.org that is making a push for Liverpool Council to: identify all council-owned land suitable for cultivation, make the land available for cultivation by licensing the land to community organisations for no extra cost, consider community food growing on sites awaiting development for other uses on a fixed term basis, allow established growing projects the right of first refusal to buy the land should the local authority decide to sell it and connect with other Right to Grow cities and support the national campaign.
