Food from the Sky

Food from the Sky is the world’s first supermarket roof garden, growing organic fruit and vegetables for sale in Thornton’s Budgens Crouch End.

Its a collaboration between Thornton’s Budgens and the local community. The project is a not for profit venture with all proceeds from sale of products being put back into the project.

Food from the Sky is about inspiring and growing a healthy and sustainable relationship with food in cities and with our supermarkets. We want to inspire our community and a wider audience on the possibilities for urban food growing at a time when London needs to grow considerably more food and therefore lower our carbon footprint.

The growing and harvesting is all undertaken by volunteers. The space is also used to encourage local residents and local schools to undertake their own growing projects. For example, students from Highgate Wood School are running an enterprise project growing mushrooms on the roof.

We are also collaborating with the heritage seed library by growing a number of endangered species of food.

The project has already inspired the local community and organisations such as The Soil Association and the London School of Economics (who are also now looking to build one).

Boris Johnson recently visited Food from the Sky, to see what he had to say about us click here

For more infomation, please contact Azul-Valerie Thome on 07765 257 517 or Click here to connect to the web site