{"id":56576,"date":"2021-01-31T08:34:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T13:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56576"},"modified":"2021-01-31T08:34:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T13:34:38","slug":"uk-urban-food-revolution-gaining-ground-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=56576","title":{"rendered":"UK | Urban Food Revolution Gaining Ground In Bristol\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UK | Urban Food Revolution Gaining Ground In Bristol\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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All hands to shovelling compost. Image \u00a9 Sims Hill CSA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Small-scale urban farming is a key piece of the food resilience puzzle. In the face of crisis, local growing has proved a reliable ally. For the city of Bristol, a turning point in the local food revolution has been a community growing project called Grow Wilder that is rooted in respect for the soil and a collaborative ecosystem. Ursula Billington reports.<\/em><\/p>\n

Grow Wilder, a community food and wildlife haven founded on Bristol\u2019s urban fringe in 2012, caught immediate attention with its burgeoning produce in a year so wet that established projects\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0crops rotting in the ground.<\/p>\n

Its secret lies hidden in the rich red depths: the fertile soil of the Blue Finger, a strip of land just 4 miles from the urban centre running parallel to the city\u2019s main connecting motorway. This soil is Grade 1 agricultural quality, a prime food-growing resource existent across only 3% of the UK.\u00a0Defined<\/a>\u00a0as \u201cExcellent quality with no or very minor limitations to agriculture. Yields are high and less variable than on land of lower quality\u201d it is clearly a valuable resource \u2013 one that Grow Wilder work actively to sustain and protect.<\/p>\n

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Harvest and the roundhouse at Grow Wilder. Image \u00a9 Sims Hill CSA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Feeding cities<\/strong><\/p>\n

A mammoth\u00a083%<\/a>\u00a0of the UK population lives in urban areas, so ensuring sustainable food security for Britain\u2019s cities is crucial. Recently, emerging challenges have aligned to signpost small-scale urban farming as a key piece of the food resilience puzzle. The necessarily urgent response to environmental crises, the impact of the pandemic and Britain\u2019s EU-exit have converged to provoke a look inward to the state of our domestic resilience, which in many ways has been found wanting.<\/p>\n

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UK | Urban Food Revolution Gaining Ground In Bristol\u00a0 All hands to shovelling compost. Image \u00a9 Sims Hill CSA Small-scale urban farming is a key piece of the food resilience puzzle. In the face of crisis, local growing has proved a reliable ally. For the city of Bristol, a turning point in the local food […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30878,30879,3324,1912,30880,30881],"class_list":["post-56576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-arc-2020","tag-bristol","tag-england","tag-food-production","tag-urban-food-revolution","tag-ursula-billington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56577,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56576\/revisions\/56577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}