Our Dee is one of the contributors of the book, London Feeds Itself. London is often called the best place in the world to eat – a city where a new landmark restaurant opens each day, where vertiginous towers, sprawling food halls and central neighbourhoods contain the cuisines of every country in the world. Yet, this London is not where…
Will 2025 be the year sustainable practices in our food system start to go mainstream? If so, it will be thanks to the tireless efforts of many people. From chefs to farmers, entrepreneurs and activists, we celebrate (in no particular order) some of the pioneers who are helping make the UK food scene a better place… OUR DEE!! 13. Dee…
Dee Woods with Allegra McEvedy. Photos by James Sopp. See the BBC website
This low-fat, vibrant chilli from Johannesburg is based on canned beans, tomatoes, onions and chillies. You can add whatever vegetables you have to hand. Serves 6 – 8 | More effort | Prep: 40 mins | Cook: 30 mins Ingredients 3 tbsplight olive oil or vegetable oil 1red or white onion, finely chopped 6garlic cloves, crushed 1-2green chillies, deseeded and…
This July, Brent Council cabinet decided to knock down both the Granville Centre and the Carlton. They are now ‘consulting’ on that decision. If this goes ahead, this will: X Destroy a heritage site in the area! The Granville has been serving the community for over 100 years and is one of the only community spaces left in South Kilburn.…
This film was made in Jan 16 at the event URBAN FEAST run by Granville Community Kitchen with the help iof the South Kilburn Trust. Over 300 people attended the day to visits stalls from local businesses as well as health and wellbeing activities and lots of children’s crafts!
Over the past year, Mona Bani followed Dee Woods and Leslie Barson, co-founders of Granville Community Kitchen (GCK), as they reject the concept of food banks and now step up to meet demand during the lockdown. For so many, food is about survival and the number of people, right here in the UK, who even pre-COVID-19 had no food at all, was…
Granville Community Kitchen (GCK), in the Granville Centre in Carlton Vale, has become a busy base of food deliveries for vulnerable people near and far. Once a week they provide hot meals which are delivered to families with a bag containing extra food aswell as toiletries and cleaning materials. “It’s not enough for a week on its own but it…
In today’s newsletter by Ruby Tandoh, perhaps you will decide if the Granville sits within London’s long tradition of charitable missions or if it breaks free of that mould. Either way, we should all be paying attention to the work Dee Woods and Leslie Barson are doing, somewhere just off Watling Street, where food is not something dictated on or…
Joe Bastable interviews Leslie Barson to discuss food aid, social housing issues and gentrification in London and across Britain. ” I met Leslie after doing a food collection in North West London with the North London Communist Party Branch, to donate to Granville Community Kitchen. Upon speaking to her I quickly learned that she is incredibly knowledgeable on both housing…
Leslie said: “Our numbers are going up and up. I get texts saying ‘I need food’ – really heartrending messages.” Granville Community Kitchen has begun providing food for residents once again after an outbreak of Covid-19 forced it to close for a week. The kitchen, in Carlton Vale, is run by volunteers and acts as a food hub for the…
Resurgence & Ecologist spoke to co-founder and ‘actionist’ Dee Woods about what resilience means to her and the Granville community. Granville Community Kitchen is a community hub that organises food-centred activities for residents in South Kilburn, an area in north-west London once known for its high levels of crime and poor housing. Since 2014, the kitchen has grown from serving…
A look back at the 2017 episode recorded at Granville Community Kitchen with Leslie Barson and Dee Woods. While Leslie and Dee prepared a community meal of Peruvian inspired pork stew, beans, rice and salad they shared how their work addresses fundamental and system issues of oppression, poverty, land use, farmers’ rights and the environment. And there’s an update from…
The leaking concrete towers of South Kilburn have been replaced with mansion blocks clad in now-ubiquitous Mystique bricks. Will they succeed where other attempts at regeneration have failed? “You could spill a bucket of water on the 10th floor,” says Leslie Barson, who has worked on the estate for 29 years, running a home education centre and community kitchen, “and someone…
Granville Community Kitchen is investing in the health of its community through a veg box scheme that makes fresh, seasonal, localised and culturally significant food affordable for everyone. Ceire Carey finds out more about Good Food Box. The building itself, known as The Granville, is an historic, brick building in South Kilburn. A place for local residents to meet, it was also…
Be Enriched, a South London Food Charity, visited the Good Food Box project in April. Recently Helen and Simon, our Food Bus team members, visited Granville Community Kitchen in South Kilburn to learn more about their model of providing affordable and nutritious food to the community. GCK have been pioneering a self-sustaining model that promotes food sovereignty, which is the…
Activa los subtítulos en Español | Activez les sous-titres en français Statement delivered by Dee Woods from the Landworker’s Alliance UK, and La Via Campesina, on behalf of the CSIPM Women and Gender Diversities Working Group, during the last day of the CFS negotiations on the Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment. After a two–year process,…
Dee attended as a chair and talked about Food Sovereignty Reloaded: How does it look today? at the panel.
Farmerama Radio is an award-winning podcast sharing the voices behind regenerative farming. They are committed to positive ecological futures for the earth and its people, and they believe that farmers of the world will determine this. By giving producers a voice, they hope to rejuvenate the confidence and vibrancy of farmers and rural communities and demonstrate how their decisions affect…
Granville Community Kitchen is mentioned as influential in the article, Landed Community Kitchen from Building an Agroecological Urbanism “Surplus” food discarded by the mainstream food supply chain is abundant, and there are often financial incentives to access it (i.e. it is cheap, or free). However, this is often food that is conventionally grown (using agrochemicals and pesticides), shipped from the…
Dee and Lamis are involved in the Future of Food Symposium 2023 Report The Future of Food Symposium is a series of conference events that have brought together academics, practitioners and citizens working across a number of food issues to share, discuss and debate the future of food. The Future of Food Symposium is organised by academics at Coventry University, the…
Dee and Beni are involved in a documentary feature film, Six Inches of Soil. This work shows the inspiring story of British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food – to heal the soil, benefit our health and provide for local communities.
A Taste of the Granville is a documentary film that GCK collaborated with Yarrow Films. A collaborative arts project that resulted in a documentary film and dinner event that celebrated the legacy and positive impact of the Granville Community Kitchen on South Kilburn Estate. The event featured five courses, each served with a short film screening. All short films were…
Towards transformative policies to reduce inequalities for food security and nutrition, the negotiation event was attended by Dee as the UK delegation of the CSIPM Equity Working Group.
Leslie Barson, co-founder of Granville Community Kitchen, Kilburn, tells City Harvest of the challenges the community kitchen faces as the need for free food rises amidst a #costoflivingcrisis Inflation has meant that people are in desperate situations, but Leslie believes that the way forward is a sustainable food co-operative, as well as their Good Food Box scheme, helping to decrease…
Be Enriched, a South London Food Charity, visited the Good Food Box project in April. Recently Helen and Simon, our Food Bus team members, visited Granville Community Kitchen in South Kilburn to learn more about their model of providing affordable and nutritious food to the community. GCK have been pioneering a self-sustaining model that promotes food sovereignty, which is the…
A Taste of the Granville is a documentary film that GCK collaborated with Yarrow Films. A collaborative arts project that resulted in a documentary film and dinner event that celebrated the legacy and positive impact of the Granville Community Kitchen on South Kilburn Estate. The event featured five courses, each served with a short film screening. All short films were…
Farmerama Radio is an award-winning podcast sharing the voices behind regenerative farming. They are committed to positive ecological futures for the earth and its people, and they believe that farmers of the world will determine this. By giving producers a voice, they hope to rejuvenate the confidence and vibrancy of farmers and rural communities and demonstrate how their decisions affect…
Granville Community Kitchen is investing in the health of its community through a veg box scheme that makes fresh, seasonal, localised and culturally significant food affordable for everyone. Ceire Carey finds out more about Good Food Box. The building itself, known as The Granville, is an historic, brick building in South Kilburn. A place for local residents to meet, it was also…
The leaking concrete towers of South Kilburn have been replaced with mansion blocks clad in now-ubiquitous Mystique bricks. Will they succeed where other attempts at regeneration have failed? “You could spill a bucket of water on the 10th floor,” says Leslie Barson, who has worked on the estate for 29 years, running a home education centre and community kitchen, “and someone…
A look back at the 2017 episode recorded at Granville Community Kitchen with Leslie Barson and Dee Woods. While Leslie and Dee prepared a community meal of Peruvian inspired pork stew, beans, rice and salad they shared how their work addresses fundamental and system issues of oppression, poverty, land use, farmers’ rights and the environment. And there’s an update from…
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Resurgence & Ecologist spoke to co-founder and ‘actionist’ Dee Woods about what resilience means to her and the Granville community. Granville Community Kitchen is a community hub that organises food-centred activities for residents in South Kilburn, an area in north-west London once known for its high levels of crime and poor housing. Since 2014, the kitchen has grown from serving…
Leslie said: “Our numbers are going up and up. I get texts saying ‘I need food’ – really heartrending messages.” Granville Community Kitchen has begun providing food for residents once again after an outbreak of Covid-19 forced it to close for a week. The kitchen, in Carlton Vale, is run by volunteers and acts as a food hub for the…
Joe Bastable interviews Leslie Barson to discuss food aid, social housing issues and gentrification in London and across Britain. ” I met Leslie after doing a food collection in North West London with the North London Communist Party Branch, to donate to Granville Community Kitchen. Upon speaking to her I quickly learned that she is incredibly knowledgeable on both housing…
