Edible Eastside

2010-2017

Digbeth, Birmingham

Client: Canals & River Trust

Architects: K4 Architects Ltd.

Brief:   Adapt industrial land, area intended to become a cultural and creative quarter, and inform future uses and find community. Demonstrate sustainable uses; repurposing land and urban growing.

Project: A pioneering urban garden established on a ½ acre former gas filling station, by the Grand Union canal. Invited people to grow their own food, with arts and education programme.

Run as a Social Enterprise.

Closed when Canals and River Trust sold the land.