The Mayor and Seb Coe urge green-fingered Londoners to 'Grow for Gold' in 2012
Designed to give Londoners a taste of food growing, the Big Dig (Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 March) will involve existing community food gardens throwing open their doors to people who want to get involved. (PressZoom) - The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson and LOCOG Chairman, Seb Coe today showed off the benefits of urban food growing, as they launched The Big Dig volunteer gardening weekend. There are already more than 1500 projects signed up to Capital Growth with the 1500th space being announced by Seb and Boris today as the NOSH Garden managed by the Memorial Community Church in Newham. New spaces who sign up this year can also enter the 'Grow for Gold' competition which will be judged later in the year and will offer a fantastic range of prizes from tools, seeds and vouchers through to free training. This is all in support of Capital Growth, a scheme to create 2,012 community food growing spaces by the end of 2012. Capital Growth, managed by London Food Link with funding from the Mayor, has taken its inspiration from a project run by Vancouver in the build
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