Today we're trying to not think about Brexit and instead focus on what is certain in this crazy place we call home - spring vegetables!
Spring is finally here and doesn't it feel great? I hope you're loving the sudden glut of purple sprouting broccoli - I've been trying to get hold of it for the...
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News and information about Crop Drop, as well as direct food growing and trade, sustainability, and community issues in Haringey and beyond
28 Feb 2017
On Monday we visited Sarah Green's farm in Essex, right near the coast in Tillingham. It was the perfect day for a visit – bright, breezy and unexpectedly warm for February. At this time of year farms generally don't look that impressive, they're not full of lush ripe plants like they are in the...
01 Feb 2017
We usually avoid commenting on politics but, like most of you, we here at Crop Drop have been watching with horror as the Trump presidency unfolds. I feel moved to speak up now because our food system is at stake more than ever before. Leaving the EU will make us even more dependent on trade with...
25 Jan 2017
While the courgette crisis last week may have seemed like a big fuss (at least to us locavores), it's just the tip of the iceberg of supply issues ahead. We're usually pretty upbeat about the challenges we face as a small social enterprise working against the dominant neoliberal food system. We...
18 Jan 2017
Wood Green Hopping is a not-for-profit community hop growing project based in Haringey and it's open for new members. The project’s aim is to get people gardening and socialising by making a local beer.
Members each grow one or two plants in their gardens or allotments of an English dwarf...
11 Jan 2017
Last week I went to The Oxford Real Farming Conference with quite a large London contingent comprising of Growing Communities and Sustain staff. The conference brought together about 750 delegates - farmers, academics, activists, lawyers, politicians and associated...
04 Jan 2017
The treasure at the end of this rainbow is Audacious Veg, an urban farm in Hainault, NE London
2016 was a tough year by many measures and a lot of us are beginning 2017 with a combination of relief and foreboding. But while there's a lot of cause for concern there's also a lot to feel...
28 Dec 2016
Last week Laura and I went to Forty Hall Farm to plan what crops they'll be growing for us for the year ahead. Forty Hall is a manor house estate just 7 miles away in Enfield which has a productive organic market garden and vinyard. Beth has been head grower at Forty Hall for five years now and...
05 Jul 2016
Urban agriculture is really important to us here at Crop Drop. And now that summer is in full swing we're so happy to be sourcing produce from Forty Hall Farm in Enfield, Wolves Lane centre in Wood Green and the Living Under One Sun community allotment in Tottenham. The quality is amazing, the...
23 Feb 2016
Last weekend I attended a one-day course called “A Taste of Forest Gardening” led by Jo Homan, of Edible Landscapes London.
This was a fascinating introduction to a permaculture approach to growing food. We learned the basic structure, science and philosophy behind forest gardening, munched on...
