The grounds of the Mellow estate in Cramley is
earmarked as a site for AFFF scheme 
using Yemeni garden techniques

Growing our own food and training in IT offers huge employment opportunities for
Cramley youth - swapping  drugdealing for multimedia and organic
food production.

Our designs for the garden allotments are modelled on the Yemeni 3-tiered garden
oasis which utilises tree, shrub, bush. We propose that Cramley be twinned with the
Yemeni village of Hazaj who have an Internet connection installed by the CTA. Their
gardening expertise can be traded with our technological expertise forging a very
creative and fruitful relationship.

The CTA is vocal critic on the nanny state tendency and we like to the promote the
benefits of DIY self-reliance. That is why we are proposing that tenants of Cramley
Housing manage their own estates with an injection of cash from the New Town
Challenge scheme. With this, the food and computer allotments can be built on the
estate gardens and expertise brought in locally and from the Yemen.

Imagine the benefits socially, educationally and ecomically. Young people, the
disabled and offenders can learn how to grow organic food and establish the vital
link between growing food and consuming it. Potatoes do not come ready-mashed from a
Nu-Kost packet as some of our youngsters were found to believe in a recent survey.


All produce  can be sold to neighbouring boroughs like Croydon and Dulwich, and
eventually through the use of the Internet, all over the world. The revenue potential
is astonishing. Furthermore Cramley can stock its own supermarket with its own
produce to replace the much-loved and much-missed Nu-Kost.

To celebrate the 5th birthday of Cramley's Art In Action Unit a grant from the CTA is
being made available for artists to design allotments and supermarkets.

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Grow Food
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