Urban Bees dedicated to urban beekeeping. The Future of Food: 11 Unique Urban Farming Projects. BankToTheFuture.com. Eric Pickles' plots are an opportunity for gritty growers of vegetables. Mary Clear and Pam Warhurst, members of Incredible Edible Todmorden, which signed a community growing licence with Calderdale council in 2009.
Photograph: Gary Calton My heart leapt when I heard that Space for food growing, a new guide by Eric Pickles' Department for Communities and Local Government, is championing a "spot a plot" initiative that is going to create more land for growing. The how-to guide suggests that if you can find public land that is disused, derelict or just underused (those endless boring green patches around towns spring to mind), then as a community you can challenge your local authority to change its use to a growing space – be that more allotments, or community gardens.