20 Feb 2016

Pam Warhurst: eating the city

From Saturday Morning, 9:06 am on 20 February 2016
Pam Warhurst

Pam Warhurst Photo: supplied

"It's about growing people's self-belief that they can create a kinder world using the Trojan horse of food."

Pam Warhurst's 2012 TED Talk How We Can Eat Our Landscapes has been viewed over a million times. The British food activist, community leader and CBE is founder and chair of Incredible Edible, a voluntary gardening initiative Incredible Edible in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.

She visits Christchurch as a guest of Incredible Edible Geraldine and Edible Canterbury, and delivers her talk Eating the Garden City at CPIT-Aoraki on 22 February.

Pam Warhurst talks with Kim Hill about how it all started and her hopes for a world with food at its heart: