Incredible Edible

August 2022

Incredible Edible’s vision for healthier, greener future.

People working together for a healthier greener future

We are helping to support the Incredible Edible movement in asking for a ‘right to grow’, using unloved public land and turning it into vegetable gardens and orchards.

Now, when the cost of living, including food, is skyrocketing (and set to get worse), and the climate crisis is no less urgent, community growing is more important than ever. Incredible Edible has launched a new campaign to change the law so it's easier for the public to grow more food in their local community on underused or unused public land (paid for by our taxes).

The biggest obstacle of all to more local food growing is the lack of available land close to peoples homes. The land is there across our public realm, from verges to unloved, often forgotten, sites. It simply needs to be repurposed to better nurture our communities.

The Incredible Edible model has shown how local food growing can bring people together to reduce loneliness, connect with nature, combat climate change, provide healthy diets and stimulate local economies.

Transforming space in cities for food growing creates green cities which are cooler in summer, less polluted, better for our mental and physical health, better for wildlife and encourage local food spend. And because many of these actions are about giving power to people to shape their community, they turn out to be more sociable and more connected places.