Incredible Edible Inspiration with Pam Warhurst

[Penni]

Many of you know and share my love and passion for the bigger picture of local foods and how we can start fighting hungry in our own communities.

If you haven't met Pam Warhurst, I want you meet her now.  With energy and humor, she tells to a crowd at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change the narrative of food in their community. Be INSPIRED!!!!

BIO:

Pam Warhurst is the Chair of the Board of the Forestry Commission, which advises on and implements forestry policy in Great Britain. She also cofounded Incredible Edible Todmorden, a local food partnership that encourages community engagement through local growing. Incredible Edible started small, with the planting of a few community herb gardens in Todmorden, and today has spin-offs in the U.S. and Japan. The community has started projects like Every Egg Matters, which educates people on keeping chickens and encourages them to sell eggs to neighbors, and uses a 'Chicken Map' to connect consumers and farmers. Incredible Edible Todmorden empowers ordinary people to take control of their communities through active civic engagement.

"I wondered if it was possible to take a town like Todmorden and focus on local food to re-engage people with the planet we live on, create the sort of shifts in behaviour we need to live within the resources we have, stop us thinking like disempowered victims and to start taking responsibility for our own futures."

Pam Warhurst

[Donna O'Toole]

Amazing!!! I am sending this to everyone I know !! I love Ted Talks . 

[Janet Carol Ryan]

omigosh - her enthusiasm is totally CONTAGIOUS!! I want to do this - somewhere, somehow - or at the very least in my own little container garden to add in more, share more, expand and express this vision in my own way - love, love, love this!!

[Susan : )]

LOVE LOVE LOVE this!!

[Mae Jardine]

Pam's message is so positively energized, I had to watch and listen to it twice.   I will be sharing this with as many others as I can.  Thanks for posting here at RFR, Penni.

[Maureen Griffin]

This is very much like the vision we have in our local food group -what an inspiration!

[Linda Heflin]

I truly hope this kind of forward thinking can spread across the ocean and start happening in the USA.  What a great idea, I think the key is maybe to do without asking like she kept repeating. It is better to ask foregiveness than permission sometimes.  :-)

[lisa hudson]

What a great story !!!

[Janet Carol Ryan]

YES!!

I saw a video from John Kohler recently in which he took a stroll through a neighborhood in San Francisco - there was a public access walkway between houses and every one of the homeowners/tenants had planted edibles - ranging from citrus trees to kale - freely accessible to all.  No permits required - just lovely landscaping that happens to produce useful and yummy fruits & veg. I just went on to his YouTube site to get the name to share with you and low and behold he just posted a new one on edible lawns!  his youtube site is called GrowingYourGreens - let's keep sharing the vision and putting it into action!!

Linda Heflin said:

I truly hope this kind of forward thinking can spread across the ocean and start happening in the USA.  What a great idea, I think the key is maybe to do without asking like she kept repeating. It is better to ask foregiveness than permission sometimes.  :-)

[Ruchira]

Great information!!

I want to do this............

[Debi]

Thanks for the video.  I've just now been able to access the video, not sure what was going on with it.  But I love it!  

[jasmine]

Thanks so much for this!   This is something that I have wanted to do in some way for my area/neighborhood, and I was needing some input to process how to make it happen...  This is Wonderful Powerful Input!  Very Inspiring!
This sort of thing brings hope no matter what, even if you are just watching and listening..