Back To Earth Projects began life in 2004 and they still run successfully at Hackney City Farm, as a programme of environmental volunteering and green skills training projects, mainly for marginalised and disadvantaged people. Back2Earth Projects in Tottenham, is now established as a local community regeneration and environmental charity that aims to transform people's lives in this diverse, depri
ved area by enabling them to engage with - and make productive use of their immediate environment. This B2E Programme of local community food projects is the first venture to actively involve local people in local regeneration, making use of the land in and around Lordship Recreation Ground in Haringey. Based at Broadwater Farm Community Centre, Back2Earth, currently runs a pilot programme of practical, local food, health and green skills training projects designed to promote: local community cohesion; improving people's long term health, their lifestyles and living standards; their employability and their local environment. The first pilot projects: the Community Kitchen, the Community Gardens and the Food Co-op encourage people from the many different local communities to come together around their food; to grow and produce their own food, and use their favourite recipes to focus on preparing healthy, affordable fresh meals that use sustainable, seasonal, locally grown fruit and veg. The need for this project and the changes it will bring grows increasingly urgent, as deprivation and disadvantage in this area seriously affects health and quality of life. The Marmot Report: "Fair Society, Healthy Lives", published Feb. 2010, states: " health inequality in the UK is now so pronounced that in the wealthiest areas of London a man will have an average life expectancy of 88 years -whereas in somewhere like Tottenham it is only 71 years." - a difference of 17 years. Just locally people in Muswell Hill in West Haringey live an average of more than 8 years longer than they do in Tottenham.
