Growing Communities - Hackney Citizen

'They may well think that food just appears in plastic bags': Growing Communities launches £450,000 bid for Dagenham education hub

Hackney-based social enterprise launches crowdfunder

Author: Niall Holden

'They may well think that food just appears in plastic bags': Growing Communities launches £450,000 bid for Dagenham education hub

Hunger across Hackney reaches record high - as food bank calls for help

Latest national figures show charities are distributing a food parcel every 11 seconds in the UK

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hunger across Hackney reaches record high - as food bank calls for help

New stall enters the fromage fray at Stoke Newington Farmers’ Market

A collective of British farms will set up shop at the much-loved market this month

Author: Hackney Citizen

New stall enters the fromage fray at Stoke Newington Farmers’ Market

‘No flash in the pan’: Iconic farmers’ market in Stoke Newington celebrates 20-year anniversary

Hackney Mayor hails Growing Communities’ venture as ‘real asset’ to the borough

Author: Marion Weaver

‘No flash in the pan’: Iconic farmers’ market in Stoke Newington celebrates 20-year anniversary

Stoke Newington farmers’ market celebrates 15 years

Growing Communities has been running London’s only fully organic food fair since 2003 – and is marking the occasion with a big party

Author: Hackney Citizen

Stoke Newington farmers’ market celebrates 15 years

Christmas (Baby Peas Come Home): Food banks to receive fresh produce courtesy of Growing Communities

The community-driven Hackney non-profit is helping to make up for many food banks’ inability to store and hand out newly harvested food

Author: Hackney Citizen

Winter veg: Growing Communities are readying bags of fresh goodies for those in need this Christmas. Photograph: Ben Dwyer (@

Growing Communities forced to quit Stoke Newington ‘patchwork farm’ site

Organisation says it had five-year agreement with TSB to use land but that solicitors had now asked the growers to move out

Author: Hackney Citizen

Driven off the land: Growing Communities had used the space behind the high street for several years

Pesticide Free Hackney campaigners urge council to stop using ‘toxic chemicals’

Council faces calls to rid Hackney of pesticides but remains committed to following government guidance on weed control

Author: Hackney Citizen

Photograph: Pesticide Free Hackney on Facebook

The Hornbeam café – review: 'a true community hub'

Vegetarian café and community centre the Hornbeam is at the heart of the Walthamstow revolution

Author: Hackney Citizen

The Hornbeam café – review: ‘a true community hub’

Vegetarian café and community centre the Hornbeam is at the heart of the Walthamstow revolution

Author: Hackney Citizen

Film night to screen moo-ving tale of dairy farmer

For Organic September, Growing Communities is showing documentary The Moo Man, about a ‘maverick farmer and his unruly cows’ navigating the dairy crisis

Author: Hackney Citizen

Horsemeat provides food for thought says Hackney Friends of the Earth

Eco-campaigners says we should take locally produced food more seriously following the horsemeat scandal

Author: Hackney Citizen