We’re looking to implement an intervention in the Fenham area which encourages local residents to grow local, shop local, and eat local. We’re hoping to engage residents in a conversation about growing and eating seasonally, food miles, and how we can work together to make eating locally more affordable and easy.

We want to use a signposting approach to showing people places in their local area they may not have known about. We also want to draw on the pre-existing resources already in Fenham, such as allotments and parks, where there’s plenty of growing potential – and eventually use the disused pool in our endeavours.

Our poster shows our innovative signposting method which highlights excess food boxes, which will be strategically placed around Fenham.

How does it work? Each drop off point will include a QR code which can easily be scanned using mobile. This a similar concept to how Amazon lockers work.

Where will they be located? We aim to have drop off points strategically located around Fenham.

We’d love to have you contribute to the project! Suggest places and local businesses in the comment below that you think could fit well into our project.