Kindling Trust, a small Manchester-based charity, can hardly be said to lack ambition. Put simply, its aim to to transform the food supply chains of its host city and create an exemplar of a just and ecologically sustainable society for others to follow. To read more click on the post title or image.

You can’t get a more dramatic demonstration of passion and commitment to the one I saw at Moss Brook Growers near Manchester. Here Stuart, Rob and Carl lease land owned by the whole food supermarket, Unicorn……………click on the post title or image to find out more.

Glebelands City Growers is in Sale on the outskirts of Manchester. Here Charlotte, Alan and Adam have formed a workers co-operative through which they cultivate some 6 acres or so of land…….click on the post title or image to find out more.