An update from Warren Draper about what’s been going on at Bentley Urban Farm during lockdown, and what the future holds. The tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic has affected every single one of us. Grief and illness are obviously the deepest and most immediate of wounds, but even those whose families have not been directly …
Greenjacker meets with Chay Godfrey, founder of Crops NOT Shops about grassroots initiatives and evolving communities. One positive thing to come out of the Covid-19 global pandemic is that we have seen a rapid re-emergence of self-help and mutual aid in communities around the world. As soon as the scale of the crisis became apparent, …
Back in September 2019 I was excited by the forward-thinking and well-informed decision made by Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council (DMBC) to declare a ‘Climate & Biodiversity Emergency’ after a 2018 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggested that there was a slim twelve year window where we could act to keep global …
Greenjacker tells us the secret to disconnecting from the electronic addiction Words: Greenjacker Photography: Warren Draper I worked a wide variety of jobs before taking the plunge to become one of Doncaster’s first urban farmers (there’s still only a few of us, so pop down to Bentley Urban Farm if you want to be part of the …