The Urban Agriculture Consortium hosted an amazing on-line forum on 21 November. We heard from six of our collaborators about their inspiring work – and how these projects complement each other creating the momentumn to forge new pathways for urban agroecology. You can watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXp0NTfplLmmvTWTYXSEvCQ And you can find out more about […]

Now that the dust is settling after the election, our work with the Urban Agriculture Consortium seems to be gaining new momentum. We’ve got a PING meeting on Farmstarts in the Midlands on Weds 24th July. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/farmstarts-for-the-future-thriving-sustainable-local-food-systems-tickets-933113677127?aff=oddtdtcreato We’ve got some new funding in place for a discussion on the Future of Urban Agriculture, and our

Jeremy and took part in a fascinating Witness Seminar at Camley Street Natural Park (London) on Monday 13th May. Next dates: Jeremy and Barabara Brayshay are presenting a workshop at theOral History Festival at the British Library, 6 July 2024.

May 2024 – UAC is currently developing new collaborations focusing on Re-imagining the Greenbelt, for work with Landed Community Kitchens and looking at the Future of Urban Agriculture in the UK. If you’d like to support UAC please email jeremy@greenfuture.org.uk More details at

Nottinghamshire Farmstart feasibility studyMay – September 2023 This pioneering work (commissioned by Nottinghamshire County Council) has now reached the end of phase 1 with the submission of the Urban Agricultrue Consortium’s feasibility study. For now, the exciting thing to report is that this work has generated a lot of interest and momentum, and various offers of land,

Next UAC PING – Tuesday 17 October 2023 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-common-partnerships-council-farms-agroecological-food-sovereignty-tickets-722635451087?aff=oddtdtcreator

Jeremy Iles has started a new role with Royal Holloway, University of London, as part of an exciting Oral History of the Environmental Movement. Started September 2022. More details here. www.rhul.ac.uk/ohem  for more info email Jeremy.Iles@rhul.ac.uk 

PING #5 – Policy Influencers Network Group. Session no.5. Wednesday 21st September – 14.00-16.30 Food Hubs – essential infrastructure for the new food economy. This September we are collaborating with the Open Food Network to spread the word about the transformative potential of food hubs to our ever widening policy influencers network.  Nick Weir and

WING # 2 – Weds 8th June, 14.00 – 16.00 Our second annual Wider Interest Network Group (WING) is coming up on 8 June (14.00). The WING is a chance to find out more about the background to the Urban Agriculture Consortium, to hear about our Year 2 evaluation, and to change the pace of

Progress and forthcoming eventsMany thanks to everyone who helped us develop the Urban Agriculture Consortium’s ever evolving networks in 2021. We look forward to more collaboration and progress in 2022. Is 2022 the year for an urban agroecology breakthrough? Quite possibly. There is growing awareness of the immediacy of the climate, biodiversity and health emergencies. This is