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This page contains reports, briefings and other documents related to WEN’s Local Food Project, which will expand on the details on these web pages and give more detailed and specific information. To place an order: Call WEN on 020 7481 9004 to order over the phone using Mastercard, Visa, Electron, Maestro or Solo; or send cheque payable to Women's Environmental Network.

Practical tools - Schools info - Briefings, reports & directory - Galleries - Newsletters

Practical tools
 

Marigold Information Pack – £4 or £2 concessions, plus £1 p&p. Available translated into Bengali and Somali. The pack contains: Grow your own organic food briefing - more sheets for schools and groups - application form to join the Taste of a Better Future network - Information about WEN - free packet of seeds.

Composting in Schools Poster
£2 inc p&p for up to 4 posters

WEN’s Guide to Building Your Own Community Compost Bin
12 minute CD or video in English or Bengali. £6 plus £1 postage & packing - call WEN.

Beyond The Bin, Jo Budd, Women's Press (2000) - Practical waste action aimed at the 12-18 year old age group. £5.99 inc p&p.

Local food project postcard, spread the word about urban growing! £2.50/5 inc p&p.

 

Composting in Schools A3 poster
 
   
  Local food postcard
 
Schools info Information for schools
  Click here for details of how to set up and maintain a school composting project.
Briefings, reports & directory
 

Evaluation of volunteer training programme Getting to the Roots 2008 (171k pdf)

Sustainable Food for London report (89k doc)

Growing Round the Houses: Food production on housing estates (450k pdf) NEW!
A WEN/Sustain publication ( June 08).

Sustainable Sustenance: food transport and the environment (268k pdf)
WEN’s briefing sheet on food miles (Updated Jan 08). References for briefing (30k doc)

Working Across Languages and Cultures (1,061k pdf)
WEN's guidance notes for working with groups from different languages and cultures (Jan '08).

Grow Your Own Organic Food (993k pdf)
Tips on how to grow your own organic food. Revised and updated (Mar 06)

Food growing for groups (458k pdf)
WEN's briefing on community food growing - including calender of activites (March 06). Printed version £1.

Culture Kitchen 2006 Report (330k pdf)

Culture Kitchen 2005 Report (124k doc)

Gene Files and other genetics info (click for list)

Green Fingered Monsters (335k pdf)
Report on a project to promote composting and waste prevention in Tower Hamlets schools.

Taste of a Better Future Network Directory
WEN's on-line directory of multi-cultural community food groups.

Taste of a Better Future - A Participatory Evaluation
A community vegetable garden provides much more than fresh organic produce. At the end of the first full growing season members of the growing groups evaluated the benefits they had gained from being involved in a community vegetable garden. For a pdf version click here (60k).
   
Galleries
 

Sustainable Food for London 2008 - An event jointly hosted by John Scurr Community Project and Women’s Environmental Network.

Tower Hamlets Event 2008 - An International Women's Day celebration of food.

Culture Kitchen 2007 - Celebrating World Food Day

Tower Hamlets Event 2007 - Celebrate! Women growing food in the city

Culture Kitchen 2006 - From the Plot to the Pot to the Plate

Tower Hamlets Event 2006 - Food, workshops, discussion

Culture Kitchen 2005 - Going from strength to strength

Culture Kitchen 2004 - so much more than a feast!

Food gathering 2003 - launching directory of network members

Food gathering 2002 - photos of the feast!

Local food gallery - photos representing the project.
   
Archive Newsletters 
  Summer ‘04 (616 pdf)
Women’s Northern Environmental networking day; Gardening for Health; Community Supported Agriculture; 101 things to do with potatoes; Downings Road floating gardens.
Spring ‘04 (403k pdf)
Healing and Healthy Eating in Kings Cross; Celebrating Diversity through Food; Grow your own Chips; London Allotments Get Greener;Global Footprints Kitten Heels.
Aut/Win '03 (515k pdf)
New Flavour for WEN Annual Event; Action against Waste; Organic and Fairtrade; Tractors and Trolleys Against GM; Kids get Composting; Supermarkets and GM; Stepping Stones Fence Appeal, East London.
Summer '03 (418k pdf)
Gardening at Bigland Green School, East London; Green Fingered Monsters Report; Taste of a Better Future Network Directory; Local Food Groups Networking Day; Compost Happens with Manda Helal; Phasing out Peat in Commercial Horticulture; GM debate have your say; Shadwell Busy Lizzies, East London.
Winter '02 (391k pdf)
Work with schools in Tower Hamlets: Cycle of Life Celebration; Growing up in Greener Grounds; Ethiopian Links, Food with Latitude; The Glass House; Cultivating the Future.
Autumn '02 (520k pdf)
Composting for All in Bradford; Concrete to Coriander, Birmingham; Scotswood Community Garden, Newcastle; Croydon Farmers’ Market; Daintynak Performing School, East London; Food Justice Campaign.
Summer '02 (463k pdf)
WEN’s Fabulous Composting Workshops; Vauxhall City Farm, South London; Gardening for Health, Bradford; Becontree Organic Growers; Coriander Club; Green Peppers Sheffield, Composting Controversy.
Spring ‘02 ( pdf)
Growing Food in Rochdale; Bangladeshi and Guyana Link Food Growing Project; First Step, Newcastle; Free Health and Safety Training; Coriander Club Update, East London; Looking for Somewhere to Grow.
Winter '01 (310k pdf)
First Step Women bring Fresh Expertise to Garden, Newcastle, Five a Day at Durham; Need Somewhere to Grow?; Gardening at a Refuge; London Projects Updates; Langdon Park School a New Term a New Harvest; Useful Resources.
Winter '00 (105k pdf)
First ever local food newsletter.
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