Food

Islington Right to Grow

Enabling our communities to green our neighbourhoods, grow together, benefit our health, wellbeing and our environment' The Right to Grow is a proposed motion developed by Incredible Edible that is being made available to councils to adopt and adapt to their local circumstances across the UK.

Increasingly, local councils are adopting Right to Grow. The Right to Grow requires local authorities to maintain a free, accessible map of all public land that is suitable for community cultivation or wildlife projects. And to make it straight-forward for community groups to secure free leases and allow those groups to bid for the land should the authority decide to sell it.

What could Right to Grow in Islington look like?

Right to Grow in Islington is about enabling access to public land for community food growing — turning underused spaces into hubs of wellbeing, resilience, and local action. To foster community resilience, cohesion and environmental stability.

Our aim is to:

- Provide access to public land for use as growing spaces that support local communities and natural habitats

- Build stronger, healthier communities through shared growing, cooking, and learning

- Enable communities to be able to respond to Climate and Social issues at a local level

- Connect and form partnerships across the food system to support community resilience, their environment, growing and use of food waste (compost).

Islington R2G is rapidly taking shape! We are looking for interested volunteers, food growers, food caterers, anyone to join us to support the campaign being adopted by Islington Council. Please contact us through the ICC info email.