“Planting a garden with food potential is one of the most valuable things we can do.”
Isabell Shipard
Welcome to Food Gardening 4 All
FG4A is a fledgling community group based in East Sheen, London, UK, that hopes to encourage aspiring or beginner food gardeners to gain confidence and build their knowledge in growing their own produce.
Whether you only have a sunny windowsill, a small lawned back garden or have just taken on a full-sized allotment, there is always food you can grow with just a little bit of know how.
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Today, in a time of great uncertainty, I feel that learning how to grow our own food is a skill we should all try and achieve.
Christine Chatfield
Having lived in East Sheen for over 30 years, Christine Chatfield, a retired Bellydance teacher, rediscovered during lockdown her love of gardening and the joy and excitement it brings by growing her own fruit and vegetables.
At the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, Christine was allowed to join up her half-sized allotment plot that she’d had for ten years to the other half when the previous owner retired. Round about the same time she treated herself to a greenhouse for her back garden not having had one since she was in her 20’s. Her enthusiasm for sowing vegetable seeds led her to having too many plants to utilise and ended up having a stall in her small front garden offering the spare seedlings to people locally.
Christine is also a core volunteer at the Vine Road growing project in Barnes, London and helps with the harvesting of the produce they grow. This then gets taken to the local food bank on a weekly basis.
If you are interested in volunteering at Barnes Common, or joining in any of the events, please click HERE
“Growing your own food is like printing your own money”
Ron Finley
“To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves”
Mahatma Gandhi
You won’t be overloaded with Newsletters, just one a month at most! Food gardening 4 all for me is a hobby with an honest desire to help and inform people to find the joy and fulfilment in growing their own food. Feel free to sign up whether you are local to East Sheen or half the world away!
Check out our Newsletter Archive in the Menu above. Lots of great info and invaluable tips!
Christine