12/08/2026
๐ฑ ๐๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ง๐๐ฑ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. ๐๐ก๐จ'๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง? ๐จ๐ฎโโ๏ธ๐ฎโโ๏ธ
Todmorden, a small town in northern England, did something radical in the late 2000s. They planted free food on every scrap of public land they could find. Outside the police station. Around the train station. In front of the town hall. Along the canal. Anywhere a seed could go in the ground.
No formal programme. No government budget. Just volunteers, shared vegetable beds and a simple idea: if the land belongs to everyone, it should feed everyone.
They called it Incredible Edible, and it spread around the world.
The model is almost embarrassingly simple.
Public land becomes a place to grow, learn and share. Residents pick what they need. Children see food coming out of the ground for the first time. Communities reconnect around something as basic as a tomato plant.
And the police? They kept the garden outside their station too.
This is exactly the kind of thinking we need everywhere right now.
Cities full of edible landscapes instead of ornamental ones. Streets that feed their residents.
Schools, hospitals, office buildings surrounded by food and biodiversity instead of mown grass.
Imagine if every Belgian, Dutch or European municipality adopted this. One food forest per neighbourhood.
One edible street per city. One community garden per school. The impact on food access, mental health, biodiversity and community would be enormous, and the cost would be almost nothing.
This is exactly what we design at Commensalist, edible, productive landscapes that feed people and restore nature at the same time. ๐ณ
So. Food forest next to every police station. Who is in?
๐๐ผ Watch Eat More Trees, now in Belgian cinemas: www.eatmoretrees.org
๐๐ผ We design edible landscapes for cities, farms and communities: www.commensalist.com
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