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Wideshot Kate Swatridge, 'Food Up Front' founder in garden2. Close up picking tomato3. Tilt down courgette flower and courgette4. Close up corn growing5. Close up  Kate Swatridge handling chilli on it's stem6....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLondon, 6th August 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wideshot Kate Swatridge, 'Food Up Front' founder in garden\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up picking tomato\u003cbr/\u003e3. Tilt down courgette flower and courgette\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close up corn growing\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close up  Kate Swatridge handling chilli on it's stem\u003cbr/\u003e6. Tilt down rhubarb plant\u003cbr/\u003e7. Pan hanging basket to rhubarb plant\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Swatridge, 'Food Up Front' organiser\u003cbr/\u003e\"Food Up Front is an urban food growing network based in south London. What we're trying to do is encourage people and help them top have a go at growing something edible in whatever outdoor space they've got whether it's back garden, front garden, balconies or even just on window sills you can actually grow something tasty to eat.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up tomatoes\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close up of flowering plant\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close up herbs growing in pots\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close up chilli pepper\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Swatridge, 'Food Up Front' organiser\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's a membership scheme so households join the scheme for �20, they receive a container for growing their salad leaves in, bag of compost and of course the seeds. We've got lettuce, coriander, spinach and rocket. They also receive a simplified instruction manual because very often gardening books and seed packets can seem quite daunting if you haven't grown anything before. And what brings it all together is that we've got a network of volunteers who are prepared to help you to sow your seeds, answer questions about how often to water and generally just hold you hand along the way\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wideshot pan towards house on a a busy road\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wideshot pan Alban Gaspard, 'Food Up Front' member coming out of house to water plants\u003cbr/\u003e18. Tilt down strawberry plant on window sill\u003cbr/\u003e19. Alban Gaspard, 'Food Up Front' member watering plants \u003cbr/\u003e20. Close up shot mint\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (English) Albane Gaspard, 'Food Up Front' member\u003cbr/\u003e\"So this is mint which is great for mint tea, you have parsley here for salads, coriander and chives. That's quite easy to grow and you can collect it really quickly and you have tomatoes here with basil at the bottom, rocket and spinach.\"\u003cbr/\u003e22. Various close ups of rocket, spinach and herbs\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE (English) Albane Gaspard, 'Food Up Front' member\u003cbr/\u003e\" The other social benefits I'd say it's about meeting people that have the same interests as you. I had no idea that so many people in my area wanted to grow food and were so enthusiastic about doing it so it's quite good to meet and you swap tips and you swap crops as well. That's one of the major benefits.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. Various packets of 'Food Up Front' seeds\u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE (English) Kate Swatridge, 'Food Up Front' organiser\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's our first year of running the project and we've been amazed at how popular its been. We've got over 230 households signed up across south London and we've got more than fifty volunteers who are ready to help people so we've got potential to take on a few more members as well if other people want to join.\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. Wide pan of St. James's Park allotment to row of cabbages\u003cbr/\u003e27. Midshot of visitors looking at crops\u003cbr/\u003e28. Midshot of visitors seen through artichoke plants\u003cbr/\u003e29. Wideshot man looking down at crops\u003cbr/\u003e30. Close up row of cabbages\u003cbr/\u003e31. Close up historical sign reading \"Dig for Victory - War on Waste\"\u003cbr/\u003e32. Tilt down of historical 'Save Your Waste' sign\u003cbr/\u003e33. SOUNDBITE (English) Cressida Finch, Exhibitions Manager, Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms\u003cbr/\u003e\"During the the second world war, there was a great problem with imported foods because of the threat to shipping in the Atlantic so rationing was introduced and people were asked to rely less on imported foods and people were encouraged to grow their own food in their gardens, if they had garden space or to get an allotment, 1.4 million people used an allotment by the end of the war - that's one in five families - and they were encouraged to grow staple filling foods like potatoes and carrots.\"\u003cbr/\u003e34. Close up sign reading '1940's Allotment'\u003cbr/\u003e35. Tilt up rows of leaks and onions\u003cbr/\u003e36. Close up cauliflower\u003cbr/\u003e37. Wideshot 1940's allotment\u003cbr/\u003e38. Tilt down allotment visitor to rows of spinach\u003cbr/\u003eWith food prices increasing, and the interest in organic food farming growing, more and more people in the United Kingdom are choosing to grow their own food.\u003cbr/\u003eA scheme called 'Food Up Front' is lending a helping hand.\u003cbr/\u003eBut urban farming is not altogether new - in fact it has its roots in wartime Britain in the 1940s .\u003cbr/\u003eIn a quiet back garden in south London, the seeds of a horticultural revolution are being sown. \u003cbr/\u003eIncreasing numbers of consumers are ditching heavily packaged and imported produce in favour of home grown herbs and vegetables. \u003cbr/\u003eKate Swatridge is one of the organisers of 'Food Up Front'. She explains that the organisation aims to encourage people in south London to grow their own food.\u003cbr/\u003eThe kinds of food that can be grown in urban environments are surprisingly varied. They include, tomatoes, courgettes, runner beans, peas, sweetcorn, carrots as well as salad leaves, herbs and chillies.\u003cbr/\u003eKate explains that members of the scheme are provided with the resources needed to get started for a small - cost covering - annual fee.\u003cbr/\u003e'Food Up Front' is a not-for-profit project that relies on community funding, membership fees and volunteers to keep running.\u003cbr/\u003eKate Swatridge says that the scheme has been met with enthusiasm from a large number of local residents.\u003cbr/\u003eThis ordinary house on a busy road in south London is one of the many unlikely settings for harvesting organic produce.\u003cbr/\u003eAlbane Gaspard is originally from Paris. She is one of 'Food Up Front's' most ardent members and also volunteers as one of their 'Street Reps'.\u003cbr/\u003eAlbane explains what she is able to grow in such a small space.\u003cbr/\u003eAside from the benefits she receives from gardening itself, Albane says that there are other, social benefits to being a member of the group. \u003cbr/\u003eWhile growing food may seem like a new-age fad to some, the concept has its roots in British war time history.\u003cbr/\u003eHere at St. James's Park in central London, the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms have helped launch an historical attraction designed to draw parallels with 1940's allotments and today's need for sustainability and recycling.\u003cbr/\u003eCressida Finch is the Exhibitions Manager at the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms. 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