City Bumpkin Podcast

Rachel Wheeley•citybumpkin.wordpress.com

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Interviews with people leading green initiatives in London

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City bumpkin podcast 7 – Transition Town Tooting

On July 4th, the bizarre and fabulous Trashcatchers’ Carnival will hit Tooting high street! Some months ago, I spoke to David and Malsara Thorne of Transition Town Tooting to find out about the Transition Town movement and how the plans for the carnival were coming along. It is going to be a fantastic event, so do follow their blog to find out more, and block out your diary for the 4th of July! There will also be the Transition Town Tooting Big Launch on Monday 12th July, and the Tooting Foodiva...

Jun 21, 2010

City bumpkin podcast 6 – Theo Pike

Theo Pike, Chairman of the Wandle trust 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 they removed. https://citybumpkin.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/bsgl6.mp3 Or click here to listen in a new window The City Bumpkin p...

Nov 12, 2008

City bumpkin podcast 5 – Seb Mayfield

Seb tending some young seedlings (with thanks to Lucy Wallace for the photo) Here is the latest installment of the City Bumpkin podcast. This month, I spoke to Seb Mayfield, of Food Up Front . Have a listen: https://citybumpkin.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/bsgl5.mp3 Or click here to listen in a new window And while you’re doing that, vote in the BSGL poll! Take Our Poll The City Bumpkin podcast map!...

Nov 05, 2008

City bumpkin podcast 4 – Project Dirt

Nick and Mark of Project Dirt In previous City Bumpkin 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, as Nick and Mark’s Project Dirt provides a hub for such activities, bringing environmental projects and people together. https...

Oct 10, 2008

City bumpkin podcast 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 soil is contaminated. However they have cleverly got round this by using raised beds, and other planters such as shopping trolleys and old baths. In addition to the growing gardens, the farm also has a fair amount of live...

Sep 04, 2008

City bumpkin podcast 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 subject of the first BSGL podcast), yet for Richard it was the first step on a journey which would see him developing neglected land all over London, cultivating a forum f...

Aug 01, 2008

City bumpkin podcast 1 – Penelope Bennett

Despite my frequent rants on the subject of getting out of The Big Smoke and away to the countryside where I can keep chickens in the garden and expand on my allotmenteering adventures, I still love life in the city. What is particularly fascinating is the frequent stories about Londoners bringing a bit of ‘green’ to the place. Some of them have built eco-houses with ingenious climate-control systems based on the anatomy of trees. Some of them are running entire farms in the midst of the urban s...

Jul 09, 2008

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