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…
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…
