Big Smoke, Green Living # 6 – Theo Pike

This month I spoke to Theo Pike, Chairman of the Wandle trust.
I met up with Theo during one of the trust’s monthly Wandle cleansing sessions.  Over fifty local volunteers were working hard to haul all sorts of rubbish including shopping trolleys and scooters out of the river.  Here’s a selection of some of the junk [...]

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Big Smoke, Green Living # 5 – Seb Mayfield

Here is the latest installment of the Big Smoke, Green Living podcast.  This month, I spoke to Seb Mayfield, of Food Up Front.
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Big Smoke, Green Living #4 – Project Dirt

In previous Big Smoke, Green Living podcasts, I’ve spoken to container gardener Penelope Bennett, guerrilla gardener Richard Reynolds, and the project manager of Deen City Farm, Ben Cheetham.  Each podcast features an interview with someone pioneering a green initiative in London.  It will be considerably easier for me to find such people from now on, [...]

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Big Smoke, Green Living #3 – Ben Cheetham

I was amazed to discover Deen City Farm just down the road from my house last year, and have been keen to find out more about it ever since.
It’s a riding school as well as a farm, with some lovely ‘growing gardens’.  The site used to be used as a dumping ground, so the existing [...]

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Big Smoke, Green Living #2 – Richard Reynolds

This is Richard Reynold’s original guerrilla garden.  It’s not actually his, it belongs to the tower block he lives in.  Richard cleared it of dead plants, litter and rubbish in 2004, replanted it, and has been looking after it ever since.
It is just 2×2 metres -  even smaller than the Penelope Bennett’s window-box allotment (the [...]

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