Incredible Edible Newtownabbey
Country Antrim
Many people don't realise just how important our pollinators are to our food system. When planning your garden this spring/summer, please consider building habitats for wildlife, insects and bees to help correct their ever declining numbers! We must protect our pollinators!https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-naturePlummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'www.theguardian.com
If you'd like to know where it all began, Pam Warhurst of Incredible Edible Todmorden gave a beautifully inspiring TED Talk a few years ago. From the first seeds that Pam and her friends planted, Incredible Edible has grown not just into a world wide network, but a community that continues to provide resources and a safe space for people to learn these essential skills that we seem to have lost! https://youtu.be/4KmKoj4RSZw
Hello! Things are moving along swiftly and it looks like we're in for a great growing season! We'll have some exciting news to share about the Flagship garden very soon but for the mean time, we need some committee members. If you would be interested in helping us bring Fresh, Free, Organic local produce to our communities and helping our group expand into new areas, please message the page and let us know. You don't need any experience, you don't even need to be an experienced gardener, all you need is a passion for growing food and bringing that food into our community! Please share this post far and wide!
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Incredible Edible Newtownabbey is all about strengthening community relationships through the growing of fresh fruit and vegetables. We're going to start building some community gardens (starting in Rathcoole) where everyone will be able to come along and learn how to grow their own food. The best part is that everything is free, you can pick whatever fruit and veg you want and take it home to cook up for dinner. We want to show people that it's not hard or expensive to eat healthy and create really nutritious meals. Food that you have grown yourself will always taste better because you can appreciate the work that has gone in to producing it! There are too many families in the area that are food insecure and no one should be priced out of health, our food is for everyone and we hope that everyone will be willing to get involved. Speaking of which, if you're a community leader or just want to get involved with the initiative, let us know because the more people driving this the merrier! We're also building an education programme that will allow people who may not have a qualification to their name to learn real world, useful skills, that they can use to gain employment by opening up avenues they may have never considered. Food scarcity is a legitimate post-brexit concern and being able to produce our own food at this scale will help to combat that. We're expecting an attitude of 'Sure that won't last long!' or 'The kids will have it ruined in no time' and to that, I say this. People. Don't. Vandalise, Food. This is a UK wide initiative that's in over 100 other UK towns and in most of those towns have actually seen their rates of vandalism go down! So, spread the word. This is a positive movement and it's all inclusive. If you eat, you're in
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It's not too late to get some Carrots planted! Why not use this template to get kids involved? Simply colour it in, fill it with compost and a few carrot seeds and plant it in the ground and your carrots will be ready for Christmas!
Mike Alty
UK-Wide Project Manager
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