Welcome to UrbanGrown!

We’ve setup UrbanGrown to celebrate the great work put in by everyday people across Britain. To toast their efforts in Garden Sheds and Greenhouses, Allotments and Community Gardens, Farmers’ Markets and Vege Boxes. We want to bring together the best of their experience - your experience - to make sure that Britain is ready for the great adventure that awaits us all in the next decade-or-so.

 “Ok, you’ve lost me there!”  I hear from the back.
“What’s this great adventure? Why wasn’t I invited? And where are my tickets?”

That’s a good point - so here’s the brochure, and I’ll get to your invite in a minute . . .

Over the next decade (or so) we have the opportunity to be part of one of the most exciting phases in human history. Together we’ll have the power to shape the kind of world we want our children and grandchildren to grow up in: their true inheritance from us, the last generation with easy, cheap access to fossil fuels.

 “Ah!”  I hear you say, “now I get it! This is run by those crazy peak-oil people who think we’re about to run out of oil/gas/coal/water/pepsi and who tell us to buy tinned food, guns, and a hidden spot in the country.” Sorry to disappont you, but its not - if you need a dose of that, go here.

This is about realising that we can’t rely on cheap oil forever and that, sooner or later, change is coming. It’s about embracing that change, and making the journey “more like a party than a protest march”, as the Transition Movement say.
More specifically, it’s about making sure that we have plenty of food and drink to party with, and that there’s enough to go around.

So here’s your invitation, come with us on this adventure: we’ll need guides, people with a range of skills and passions, and eager followers to help those who stumble along the way - to keep the knowledge and skills alive.
If you garden, or shop for food, or cook, or farm, or keep chickens (or pigs, goats or cows), or just have a window box and some aspirations - or are interested in learning - then join in!

We’ll be opening the site up progressively, to build a living guide to the best ways to grow and supply food to Britain through the Energy Crunch to come. And we’ll make an adventure of it!

 So get ready - the future is ours to decide.

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