Clitheroe flower beds may become incredibly edible

Posted: 11.01.10 by Estelle

Clitheroe could be on the way to being an edible town.

Clitheroe Councillors put forward a sheme to turn flower beds into edible gardens in the town.
Part of the idea is for floral display boxes to be filled with vegetables to share. Pick your own free veg in Clitheroe may be on it’s way.
Here is a short extract from an article in The Lancashire Telegraph.

Coun Connor said: “This scheme is about getting the community to source food in their locality because we are going into an era with a lack of oil and gas and our dependency on shipping food from various countries all over the world will have to cease. “We need to move towards a locally-sourced economy and take responsibility as individuals for our own food production.” TTC was set up in July last year by a group of volunteers and now boasts more than 100 members. It hopes to imitate the Incredible Edible Todmorden group

To read this article in full go to The Lancashire Telegraph

The Guardian has also reported the story.

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this is great TTC, more power to your trowels