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Mayor launches Capital Growth
On November 4, 2008, London's Mayor Boris Johnson and mayoral food advisor Rosie Boycott joined London Food Link to launch Capital Growth - the campaign for 2,012 new food growing spaces for London by 2012.
This page shows photographs from the event. For enquiries about Capital Growth, contact capitalgrowth@sustainweb.org. Tel: 020 7837 1228.
London's Mayor Boris Johnson and mayoral food advisor Rosie Boycott speak to the press at the press launch of Capital Growth, at the Thrive herb garden in Battersea Park. "Capital Growth will help to make London a greener, more pleasant place to live whilst providing healthy and affordable food," said the mayor.
Bonnie Hewson (left) from Capital Growth space number 1 (Blenheim Gardens housing estate in Brixton) meets Mark Ainsbury from the London Development Agency (funders of the pilot phase of Capital Growth) and Ian Solomon-Kawall (right) from Capital Growth space number 2 (a private garden in Morden)
Ian Solomon-Kawall meets mayor Boris Johnson at the press launch of Capital Growth at the Thrive Herb Garden, Battersea, November 4, 2008
Journalists interview Boris Johnson and Rosie Boycott at the press launch.
Susan Stuart (left) of the Thrive project at Battersea Park presents Rosie Boycott and Boris Johnson with a box of vegetables grown with Thrive's volunteers - Londoners with disabilities, who benefit from food growing activities in the park.
