What we're doing right
Capital Growth
21st September 2010
A vegetable patch on a former London parking lot - in the heart of the most regal garden.
Runner beans. Seedlings. Plots.
Smack in the centre of London’s most regal green space, Regent’s Park, sits a scattering of seedlings, creeping vines, apple tree saplings, swelling courgettes and giant, sagging sunflowers. Next door: the famous Queen Mary’s Rose Garden, quintessentially London.
This vegetable garden however is brand new – look on Google Earths’ satellite view and you’ll see the parking lot that sat it its place just six months ago.
The Regent’s Park Allotment Garden is the 500th such urban veggie patch installed by Capital Growth, which aims to create 2,012 similar spaces in the British capital by 2012. The goal: not only to produce genuinely local and sustainable food, but also to bring those skills back to an urban population that has forgotten how to farm.
Want to get your hands dirty? Volunteers are always welcome.
Open Day this Sunday September 26th, 10-4pm – free food, and lots of it.
Sunshine. Sunflowers. Bees. Pollination.
Ripe seeds. Ready to eat.
Basil. Purple lettuce.
Apples.
Onions.
Reuse.
Food.
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