Organicelea

Yesterday I was down at Organiclea’s Hawkwood nursery for an open day and good food swap. Organiclea is a workers co-operative that ‘grow’s food, sells food, and helps you grow food.’ At the nursery in Chingford, East London, is an abundant glasshouse and outdoor plot, growing a lot of the vegetables that go into their market stalls and veg box scheme. All the veg is organic, and through these initiatives they aim to have good locally grown food getting direct to the consumers. I got some winter salad seedlings to get growing on my windowsill: wild rocket, salad rocket and lambs lettuce.

The Good Food Swap is a great idea: people bring something they have either grown, made or foraged. All items are laid out and labelled, then the bartering commences, where everyone can see what they can exchange for their wares…