Presentation at Transition Bath event

Stronger communties

www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk

Trojan horse of food to change our future

Todmorden

17,000 PEOPLE

NORTH OF MANCHESTER WEST OF LEEDS

BORDER TOWN

3 STEEP VALLEYS, WINDSWEPT “TOPS”

15 ALLOTMENTS

BACK TO BACK HOUSING

FEW FULL TIME FARMERS LEFT

5 DAYS A WEEK INDOOR AND OUTDOOR MARKET

1 SENIOR AND 6 PRIMARY SCHOOLS

The ModelThree spinning plates.

One is boring, Two is clever ,

Three’s a show!

First Three Months

Seed and plant swaps start.

Propaganda gardens-every bodies food

Incredible parents

Food –we all do it.

Next 6 months

Doctors take a vote for veg.

750k school food hub bid to the lottery

Care Home gets the edible bug

Graveyard beds

Health Centre

Apothecary Garden

Every Todmorden school grows food

Food hub

Aquaponics unit

Students learn where food comes from

How to grow it

And how to cook it

Ferney Lee school beds replace tennis

Graveyard beds

And…….

School yard will never look the same

Every egg matters campaign.

Agriculture show- new growing section.

Community Pay Back do us proud

Harvest Festival

We can do it in anything!

Schools wellies entry for the show

Every egg matters

Bee Credible

Lost arts training

Cooking lessons in the street

Social Housing raised beds

Walsden Project

Volunteers get to work

Gorpley hill top growing site

Broad casting cereal seed at altitude

We Don’t Start With Nothing!

Public and Private LandVerges, Parks, Canal Corridors, Back Yards.

Market hallsHealth Centres

Social Care HomesSchools

Council BuildingsCanal banks

A Rainbow of Community Talents

And………….

• Fantastic Web site

• Job training

• 20011 new training scheme for high school

• Community pride

• A license to grow for the whole borough

• Vegetable tourism

• 43 egg producers

• Local food promotion for the market

And what does all this mean for Tomorden?

• Boys cops shop

• Canal bed

• Crumbly Jean/ Carls cheese

• New business opportunities

• 2 shots RW station

• New link with farmers

The new pickle empire

New Market methods

FIRST TODMORDEN CHEESE

Growing at the Police Station

Fire Station

Railway Station Beds

Ferney Lee Care Home

Some of our regular pickers

Vegetable Tourism

Todmorden’s Incredible Green Route

So how could this happen

everywhere ?

Take Any Community

Add a different approachto Regeneration

Such as

Build schools for the future that have the living edible world at their heart.

Transform health buildings with edible plants and trees as an integral part of the

design and workplace.

Release public land for food growing.

Encourage all social landlords to allocate space for growing.

We want this little fellow to grow up in a cleaner, greener, stronger world

www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk