We’re pleased to see Granville Community Kitchen and Farm included in this reflection on community-led change and collective futures. My hope has been wavering. Perhaps this is an odd way to begin this offering. My work, after all, is rooted in hope and imagination. I spend much of my time inviting people to think beyond the limits of what exists;…
For over a decade, Granville Community Kitchen (GCK) has worked with the South Kilburn community, sharing affordable, culturally appropriate organic food, creating opportunities for work and learning, and hosting community-led events. Through this work, we’ve seen how the dominant industrial food system, and the growing distance between people and the land, shape our diets, health, identities, and our relationship with…
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…
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…
