Useful Website Links

Acorn Centre

Community drop in centre, youth club, training facility, and internet cafe, the Acorn is now firmly established in the life of the community of Todmorden

Allotment Growing

A very useful source of growing information. Allotment diaries, photographs, advice about growing vegetables, fruits and herbs with a forum for chatting on the plot.

Amazonails

Amazonails Straw Bale Inovations Straw bale constructions, the way forward for green buildings. Designers builders and educators Amazonails run courses in the centre of TODMORDEN

Assura

Assura works in partnership with GPs and Health Professionals to deliver property, pharmacy and medical services across the UK. The group that see that little bit further, and takes that extra step to help communities.

British Beekeepers' Association.

Promotes and supports beekeeping throughout the UK with links to local beekeepers' groups. Advice and information Everything from getting started, beekeeping for kids, discussion forums and the latest publications and news.

Brooklyn Food Coalition

A project to develop a system for local seasonal and sustainable food in Brooklyn. Bring people together to create a better way of growing distributing and eating food.

Calderdale Council

Calderdale Council, the first in Britain to issue land licences to to grow food on spare land, to local people. "Calderdale - everyone different, everyone matters"

Community Foundation for Calderdale

The Community Foundation for Calderdale is an independent registered charity that aims to improve quality of life for the people of Calderdale by connecting people who care with local causes that matter

Community Harvest

Community Harvest is a growing project in Australia which focusses on our two key areas, Access to Local Food, and Lasting Change. Very like Incredible edible

Crow Pie

The place where you can find information about any traditional British food, wherever you are, and wherever you go. This is a place where the word ‘traditional’ is valued, and does not mean ‘obsolete’. This is where people who value their culture and heritage can find out more about it, and do something positive with it.

Fairtrade Todmorden

Todmorden is now officially a Fairtrade Town, Take a look around the site to find out more. Check out the local listings page where you can find where Fairtrade products are used and sold; check out events planned in the dates for your diary section and take a look at what the group have been doing in the campaign update section.

Ferney Lee Primary School

Ferney Lee Primary is a co-educational community junior, infant and nursery school. It has great community growing schemes in place, and have built a large number of Allotments for local families.

Food Ethics Council

The Food Ethics Council challenges government, business and society to make wise choices that lead to better food and farming. Uniquely, it's focus is on how choices are made and champions decisions that are: * Principled – aiming to benefit people, animals and the planet, and to treat each fairly and with dignity. * Informed – based on sound knowledge and diverse experience, but ready for surprises. * Inclusive – involving and answerable to the people they affect.

Garden Organic

The national charity for organic growing Garden Organic, the UK's leading organic growing charity, has been at the forefront of the organic horticulture movement for 50 years and is dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food.

Green Business Network

The Green Business Network (GBN) is an award-winning not-for-profit business support organisation delivering environmental advice and projects.

Grow Sheffield

Grow Sheffield is an active network of individuals and groups promoting urban organic food growing. Also creators of the Abundance Handbook, available to download

Home Grown - Otley

Whether you have a windowsill, a few pots or a small backyard, you could be surprised just how much fruit and vegetables you can grow over a year. at Home Grown you can learn how to get the most from whatever space you have..

Hydroponics 4 Life

The aim of hydroponics4life is to link individuals, schools and organisations with projects in our developing world. Sharing and developing the techniques and advances in science makes a difference where it is needed most.

Incredible Edible Doncaster North

Incredible Edible Doncaster North, TRANSITION TOWN BENTLEY blog site These folks are Incredible.

Incredible Edible Huddersfield

Incredible Edible Huddersfield is a grassroots movement affiliated to Incredible Edible Todmorden. Its aims are to actively promote locally produced food through community action.

Incredible Edible Macclesfield

Incredible Edible Macclesfield is a new in the making, growing community. The new shoots of the initiative are just emerging. Watch this space

Incredible Edible Rossendale

Incredible edible Rossendale a partner group to IET getting started in Rossendale great site.

Incredible Edible Wakefield

The site aims to share ways that Wakefield people can all make a difference by coming together to increase the amount of healthy, local food, grown and eaten in and around the Wakefield area,and help strengthen and support local communities.

Land Share

Channel 4 River Cottage Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Land share site, sign up on line.

Laurel Farm Herbs

If you happen to be visiting or live in East Anglia, this herb farm is well worth a visit. They also do mail order.

Making Local Food Work

Aims to 'reconnect people and land through local food, increasing access to fresh, healthy local food with clear traceable origins'. Helps producers to sell directly to customers, build skills, trading systems, networks and resilience.

Neighbourhoods NW

The Neighbourhoods Gateway for those living, working, managing and leading in neighbourhoods in the Northwest. The site says:- "If like us you're working to improve neighbourhoods then we're here to support you with a range of knowledge, information, learning & development opportunities, communities of interest and much much more."

New Forest Life

Share an insight into the life and fascinating history of this wonderful environment. Which may soon be a little Incredible Edible

NHS Forest

he NHS Forest is an exciting new national project coordinated by the Campaign for Greener Healthcare. The project’s central aims are: * Improving health of staff, patients and communities through use of green space. Largely due to increasing access to green space on or near to NHS land. * Greening the NHS Estates and planting 1 tree per employee. Amounting to 1.3 million trees within the next 5 years. * Encouraging greater social cohesion between the NHS Estates and the local community. * Encourage the NHS to ensure environmental benefits of their estates to include reducing the NHS’ carbon footprint through offsetting from the 1.3 million trees planted. * Bringing together a range of highly skilled professionals to produce woodland that includes the use of art, food crops and mapping.

Northern Polytunels

Northern Polytunels, makers and suppliers of state of the art polytunnels, as seen at Todmorden High School.

NRM Laboratories

With over 40 years' experience, NRM Laboratories is regarded as one of the country's most innovative and experienced independent analytical businesses.

Ocean Station

Ocean Station Open Sailing “Open_Sailing” aims to design an attractive technological lifestyle to overcome any possible natural and man-made disaster, stimulating people’s ingenuity and sense of solidarity. Be it overpopulation, global warming or energy conflicts, we are living in a time where “Apocalypse” beckons. We need to collectively invent and spread bootstrapping DIY technologies for the forthcoming challenges, not only to survive but to re-invent how we inhabit this planet. They are also developing innovative ways of growing and cooking food

Organic Growers of Fairlie

This is the website of an association of village residents in Fairlie, Ayrshire, Scotland, registered as a charity and who are all committed to living healthier, more sustainable lifestyles and improving the environment using organic techniques.

Outta Place

Outta Place is a social enterprise that works to create opportunities for young people to participate in high quality arts activity.

Pennine Housing

Incredible Edible Pennine Pennine Housing's own Incredible Edible Initiative, with a free 'Edible Pennine' starter pack,complete with easy to follow instructions, for interested tenants.

POGOE

Permaculturists & Organic Growers Of Exeter. POGOE is a collective of Devon folk who have come together with concerns about the reality of peak-oil, concerns about lack of community in society, and green fingers that want to mould positive solutions out of the earth.

Pextenement Cheese Company, Todmorden

"Quality Cheese handmade in Todmorden from Pextenement Organic Milk" at Pextenement Farm, a family run certified organic dairy farm.

River Cottage

Website of writer and broadcaster Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, with details about the River Cottage Foods business.

Shade Primary School

Shade Primary School's website, with an eggcellent page on hatching eggs

Staups Farm

Staups Farm is above Hebden Bridge and Todmorden near the border between Lancashire and Yorkshire. Buying your food from us at Staups Lea Farm gives you the opportunity to purchase food from a source that you can see.

Sustainable Cities....CABE

Help from CABE for people in local authorities working to create better places. Helping to integrate green infrastructure into urban areas. They've done a case study of IET.

Sustainable Food

Interesting site about sustainable food programme. Home of the free on line sustainable food guide

Sustainable Retreat

Paul Clark's Blog spot about creating sustainable communities

The Battery Hen Welfare Trust

Every year the Battery Hen Welfare Trust collects thousands of 'spent' hens and re-homes them, through the efforts of a national network of volunteers. The aim of the BHWT is to see increased support for British free range farmers and diminishing sales of eggs from caged birds. If you're interested in taking on some hens, local contact details given at this site.

The Bear Co-op

The Bear Co-op offers you and your family a huge range of products to help you live a healthier and less environmentally damaging lifestyle.

The Fielden Society

The Fielden Society website about the Fielden family

The Todmorden List

The Todmorden List is an internet guide to what's going on where and when in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.

Todgrow Discussion Forums

Growers and gardening information exchange discussion forums for Todmorden.

Todmorden High School,

A school where Minds, Bodies, Food and community spirit all grow together

Todmorden in Bloom

Todmorden in Bloom... Winner of Town category, Yorkshire in Bloom 2008 Todmorden in Bloom's aim is simple...To create a greener, cleaner, safer Todmorden for residents and visitors to enjoy. Working in conjunction with Incredible Edible Todmorden, leading the way with innovative sustainable and often edible planting!

Todmorden Station Partnership

Todmorden Station, the place for trains and so much more, including Incredibly Edible Herbs and vegetables. Not to mention the incredible potato bed.

Todmorden Tourist Information Centre

The place to go to find out what's happening localy. Information about where to stay, in Calderdale and elsewhere in U.K., and an accommodation booking service, national and local events, tickets for many of which can be purchased here. Also available soon Incredible Edible Todmorden sites map, and egg map

Todtalk

Todtalk Todmorden’s community website. For keeping up with events and happenings in and around Todmorden

Totally Locally

Totally Locally is all about Me, You, Him & Her. It’s about shopping in your street, your town, your district. It’s about jobs & community, it’s about investing today for a prosperous tomorrow, it’s about making this place shine like a diamond. This makes good sense

Visualize2D

Visualize your ideas with Visualize2D This is the software we use to create our Dream Streets here on the site and on the move

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