The Edible Bus Stop: transforming urban space one stop at a time

Edible Bus Stop's RHS Hampton Court show garden 2012. Photograph: Will Sandy

A community group's plans to piggyback the transport network and create a network of edible gardens

You wait for ages for an edible bus stop to come along and then three turn up at once.

 The team behind the wonderful Edible Bus Stop in Stockwell, South London have announced plans for Edible Bus Stops in Clapham Common, Crystal Palace and Brixton.

Actually, "wait for ages" couldn't be further from the truth. Since first putting down roots on Stockwell's Lambeth hospital bus stop which serves the number 322 bus, the team have been anything but tardy in their edible greening of unappetising urban spaces. Earlier this year they served up a second garden at West Norwood's stop H, also on route 322. With charm and persistence, the Edible Bus Stop team have not only won over local communities and London Transport, but also that bastion of the gardening establishment, the Royal Horticultural Society. Their Riot of Colour garden, designed by Edible Bus Stop creative director Will Sandy, was a vital ingredient in the urban greening theme at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. But what motivates Sandy and Edible Bus Stop founder Mak Gilchrist to plant edibles near bus stops? Why should you care? And finally, how can you get involved?

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Source:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2012/jul/26/edible-bus-stop

The Landscape Institute Ideas competition

The Landscape Institute, the Mayor of London and the Garden Museum are hosting an open ideas competition, to design innovative new places that enrich London’s Green Infrastructure. Entries will be judged by a panel of experts including the founders of New York’s High Line - a public park created on a 1.45 mile-long elevated rail structure in the heart of Manhattan.

The winners will be announced by Mayor of London Boris Johnson as part of the High Line Symposium taking place at the Garden Museum from 5-8 October 2012. Shortlisted entries will be displayed at the Garden Museum and featured in the LI's journal 'Landscape', and each shortlisted entrant/team will receive a free ticket to the Symposium.

Download thecompetition brief and the registration form.

Find out more about Green Infrastructure

Closing date for submissions: 14 September, 2pm.

Prizes:

• First prize: £2500
• Runner up: £500

Source:

http://www.landscapeinstitute.org/ideas/

For students who are going places

The Landscape Institute Travel Award 2012

The Landscape Institute Travel Award is awarded from a fund set up in memory of David Ashmore, Adrian Brunswick and Michael Norton, three landscape architects who were tragically killed in an air crash at Biggin Hill on 13 January 1989. A legacy was added to the fund on the death of Mary Mitchell in December 1988.

The fund provides for an annual award for which student members of the Institute may apply. The aim is to provide applicants with an opportunity to travel which might not otherwise be open to them. Travel should be extracurricular, focusing on a specific topic of interest. It can be in the form of a study-specific trip, or extension of existing travel arrangements for the purpose of study.

In 2012 the amount offered for the award is to a maximum of £750. The closing date for applications will be Monday 30 April 2012. Applications will be reviewed by a panel convened by the LI’s Education and Membership Committee and the winning applicant will be notified by 31 May.

For more information and an application form, click here.

Source:

http://www.landscapeinstitute.org/news/index.php/news_articles/view/for_students_who_are_going_places/