Prior to focusing on academic and art practices around the subject of UA, I was a film maker and below are some of the previous films and videos…
Thriving spaces: greening refugee settlements Authors: Dr. Carrie Perkins, Dr. Andrew Adam-Bradford and Dr. Mikey Tomkins By incorporating urban agriculture initiatives within refugee camp settings, the concept of…
Article published in Gardens Illustrated, Caroline Beck (2018) “Gardens of Hope” explores the work of the Lemon Tree Trust in Northern Iraq. Article available here.
Co-authored report for the Lemon Tree Trust that details the work on UA and refugees. From the introduction “At Lemon Tree Trust, we believe that urban agriculture –…
Between 2015 and 2018 I worked in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) As a co-founder of the Lemon tree Trust, alongside Stephanie Hunt. Our team has helped…
The films below are edits of existing footage to provide a film document of Bohn and Viljoen’s work around UA. Short film I edited to document Bohn and Viljoen’s…
The Edible City of Peterborough, UK This Edible Map focuses on the centre of Peterborough, UK. In the 1960s the Cambridgeshire town of Peterborough was designated a New Town. It now…
Newcastle Journal 2015 Could Newcastle’s rooftops become an urban farm? By David Whetstone A new project in Newcastle is envisaging a future where food is produced on urban…
Guardian 2011 Edible Hackney More and more people are finding imaginative places for growing food in urban environments. Edward Platt reports. The Guardian article is here
Beekeeping Diary: the London Honey Festival I’m sitting in the tasteful and luxurious bar of Skylon, the chi-chi restaurant at the Royal Festival Hall, and someone is making…
The new report by the Humanitarian Innovation Project at Oxford, entitled ‘Refugee Innovation: Humanitarian innovation that starts with communities’ was launched in July at the Humanitarian Innovation Conference….
This page explores the Edible Map of Dallas, which covers 110 acres of central Dallas. The map explores the potential for urban agriculture in the neighbourhood, imaging food…
Published book, “Why we need small cows: ways to design for urban agriculture”. The chapter is called, “Who makes the city”, co-authored with Andre Viljoen and Katrin Bohn. it discusses…
The edible Map project has been an ongoing since 2010. The project aims to collect spatial data on urban land that could be made available to grow food….
YOU ARE HUNGRY: MAPPING AN EDIBLE URBAN HACKNEY was the first Edible Map and walk that I created. The walks ran in both 2010 and 2011 and were…
“Second Nature. Urban Agriculture: Designing productive Cities” won the President’s prize 2015 at the RIBA awards for publications. Chapter title: Bricks and nectar: Urban beekeeping with specific reference to urban…
I completed my PhD entitled “Everyday community food gardening and its contribution to Urban agriculture” at the University of Brighton, in the school of Architecture and design. My supervisors…
As part of the Discovering Britain series, The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) has published the Hackney Edible walk as a self-walk with audio guide and…
Flâneuring, Edible Mapping and Feeding Imaginations This paper discusses the edible map project and walks in Hackney, London, 2010-2011 Title of Paper: You Are Hungry: Flâneuring, Edible Mapping…
Title of chapter: Architecture et al: food gardening as spatial co-authorship on London Housing estates Published in: Sustainable food Planning: evolving theory and practice. Ed Andre Viljoen and…