Pamela Warhurst from Incredible Edible Network talks about turning grey spaces green by helping people believe in themselves.
From the Ground Up
Pamela Warhurst from the Incredible Edible Network talks about turning grey spaces green by helping people believe in themselves.
The original Incredible Edible project in her hometown started with “propaganda” gardens on public land. It evolved to include edible plants around the community health centre and collaborations with businesses in the community.
Today the Incredible Edible Network includes communities around the world.
“It wasn’t the veg that mattered: It was the fact that a bunch of people had said, ‘We’re going to change things.’”
Top Tips
Warhust says to start by helping peole to help themselves.
Here are her top two tips to get started:
Just get up and do it. Don’t make a long list.
Believe in yourself.
“It’s a movement of people who care about tomorrow as well as today.”
Warhurst’s new book is called Seed to Solutions.
Connect
Incredible Edible Network: incredibleedible.org.uk
“We want to grow farmers.” That’s what our guest Jessey Njau told us in 2020, when he and his farm business partner Misha joined us here on the show to talk about Zawadi Farm here in Toronto. Regular listeners will recognize that as the farm where Emma has worked for the past couple of summers.
Hear Jessy and Misha talk about facilitating change through urban farming in the July 2020 episode entitled, Urban Farming to Grow Social Change.