Eccentric town, Todmorden, growing ALL its own veg. By Vincent Graff Updated: 16:31 GMT, 10 December 2011 Admittedly, it sounds like the most foolhardy of criminal capers, and one of the cheekiest, too. Outside the police station in the small Victorian mill town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, there are three large raised flower beds.
If you’d visited a few months ago, you’d have found them overflowing with curly kale, carrot plants, lettuces, spring onions — all manner of vegetables and salad leaves. Today the beds are bare. Why? Because people have been wandering up to the police station forecourt in broad daylight and digging up the vegetables. And what are the cops doing about this brazen theft from right under their noses? Food for thought: Todmorden resident Estelle Brown, a former interior designer, with a basket of home-grown veg Well, that’s not quite correct. ‘I watch ’em on camera as they come up and pick them,’ says desk officer Janet Scott, with a huge grin.
For the vegetable-swipers are not thieves. ‘It’s a very ambitious aim. BIG IDEAS: Dickson Despommier's Vertical Farming. Farms of the Future. Internet of food: Arduino-based, urban aquaponics in Oakland. Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes. Edible City: Grow the Revolution (2012.