FoSGP Chair Carol O'Brien and our group Treasurer Rob Brown visited the birthplace of edible urban environments this week, Todmorden in Calderdale, West Yorkshire. Todmorden is the birthplace of Incredible Edible, the community food growing project that began there in 2008 and has literally blossomed ever since. Incredible Edible's slogan is "If You Eat, You're In" and we here at St George's Park friends group share that sentiment. We have been planting edibles in the park since 2011 and now have funding for further development of these activities in the Horsefair and surrounding areas. Let's Eat the Park (LEAP) owes much to the Incredible Edible so-called Propaganda Gardening project and like them we had to struggle to be fully accepted and endorsed by local authorities and other locally influential organisations in the very early days of eating St George's park back in 2011. This happily is no longer the case for Incredible Edible which was endorsed and supported by Prince Charles in 2009... and neither is it any longer true of the Friends of St George's Park project. LEAP now enjoys a very producrtive and mutually positive relationship with Wyre Forest District Council and other partners including The People's Health Trust who have invested in the project.
Here are some photos taken during our visit to Todmorden that illustrate what we hope to see in the Horsefair in the not too distant future as Let's Eat the Park spreads beyond the park gates. So Let's Eat the Horsefair!
Here are some photos taken during our visit to Todmorden that illustrate what we hope to see in the Horsefair in the not too distant future as Let's Eat the Park spreads beyond the park gates. So Let's Eat the Horsefair!