Tilt

For the past year we have been bouncing all around London trying to get comfortable in a new city and desperate to find a place to call home. We think that we might have found it, finally! Enter the world of new-minded thinking here at the Dalston Farm: Shop – the world’s first farm that is growing within a 3 story row house. We found East London last summer when we had a fantastic space at the Print House. Due to the commute and the general cooperative environment, it didn’t work for us at the time so we left there in October. Now we are back, across the street in our own space…at the Farm: Shop. Come on by for a visit and we will give you a look-see.

This well-designed science / life experiment has started a revolution. There is beautiful light, a fantastical amount of vegetables, herbs, animals and fish growing and the Something & Son folks are planning to open a cafe on Monday on the first floor. Now you can browse the internet, have tea picked fresh from the plants next to you, whilst the fish swim by!

What are we doing here? Well, good question – we have lots and lots of plans, beginning with:

• Our own TILT Cafe as a pop up concept to be potentially installed in the Farm: Shop hopefully by end of summer.
• We are taking on new clients and are planning to revolutionize the food industry through effective design and branding.
• In the most recent moments, we are riding on the curtails of our volunteer work with The People’s Supermarket in Holburn which has just finished the final in 4 episodes on Channel 4.
• We are hoping to begin work on our Olympic project soon as we have lots of ideas to get going with.
• We will be again working with the Hackney Pirates (neighbourhood kids) at The Print House on the food week this summer.
• Through the Farm: Shop and the Tilt Foundation we will be doing what we can to help bring real food to real people.

If you are ever in Central London, just take the Overground for about 2 stops and pop on by. We would love to have you.

Article for Beanstalk by E. Rachael Baird

The air is warm and the sun gets brighter as the day peaks. It is the end of summer and laughter can be heard all over the neighbourhood as the kids of Dunster Street ride their bikes from end to end in a race. A chicken squawks from the corner of the back lot and neighbours wave hello as the signature ventilation caps turn slowly in the gentle breeze and we are all reminded that we live in BedZed. It is the ideal neighbourhood.

I have just moved here and already I feel welcomed. In the seemingly transient lifestyle of London, there is a respite for those who want to get to know their neighbours and have a community-style life. As the pilot project of Bioregional for a planned community, this 50 home neighbourhood in Hackbridge in Surrey is based off of the One Planet Living Principles and is a sight to see. My friends from the US typically refer to it as the Teletubbie homes because of the Disneyesque styling of the exterior with the lush plants that are almost unnaturally healthy looking. I can confidently say, that every component of the design has a purpose and is fun to look at, which makes it twice as good!

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