LONDONERS will be able to unearth £150,000 worth of funds to grow their own food.
The Capital Growth scheme aims to create 2,012 growing spaces by 2012 in discarded patches of the capital, tended by enthusiastic community gardeners.
Community groups can apply for small grants of between £200 and £1,500 from the overall pot.
More than 150 plots have already been signed up including canal banks, schools, roofs, private gardens open to the community and parks.
Grants are on offer until next March to any group that has been growing food on a plot started from January 1 this year.
It is funded by the Mayor of London and by Local Food, part of the Big Lottery Fund's Local Food Scheme.
For more information visit capitalgrowth.org
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