The Food Project and Starbucks recently teamed up to produce a video highlighting youth and farms. Starbucks has been a supporter of the Food Project and source of volunteers for five years.

“In 2009 Starbucks awarded 50 Shared Planet Youth Action Grants totalling $842,000 to US non-profit organization to help support young people identify and address local needs. Starbucks is proud to support the work of all of these organizations including The Food Project in Boston, Massachusetts. The Food Project supports youth in producing healthy food for residents of the city and suburbs, provides youth leadership opportunities, and supports others to create change in their own communities.”

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Gardens at Hammersmith Allotments by Francis Dodd, 1929

The Good Life – 100 Years of Growing Your Own

6th October 2009 – 7th March 2010

2009 has been a year of ‘Growing Your Own’ – from allotments to balconies and window-boxes, people throughout Britain are growing their own and enjoying a slice of ‘The Good Life’.

Our winter exhibition traces the story of growing food in Britain over 100 years. Starting with the Allotment Act of 1908 and visiting key moments such as the Dig For Victory campaign of the Second World War and the Self-Sufficiency movement through the 1970s, paintings, photographs, personal memoirs and even the odd home-spun sweater will tell the story of why, how and what we have grown.

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