The document summarizes the Urban Farming Middlesbrough 2007 project which aimed to address issues in Middlesbrough such as high deprivation, poor health, and underachievement through urban agriculture. The project included establishing "grow zones" around the city with large, medium, and small containers for farming, as well as organizing cooking events and a town barbecue using the locally grown produce. Partners in the project included schools, retailers, social services, universities, and local farmers. The goals were to raise awareness of food systems and sustainability, and help connect urban and rural areas through urban agriculture.

1. Urban Farming Middlesbrough, 2007

17. Small containers: windowboxes

18. We provide the containers, soil, seeds, seedlings, tools and expert ‘phone-a-friend support’

19. You provide the interest, enthusiasm, locations and people power

20. We sow in April and harvest through to the end of August….

22. There will be a series of cooking events in kitchens in the town, using fresh produce…

24. … .and a town barbie in September 07 in front of the new art gallery, featuring locally-produced meat

27. We plan to commission a special strategic study….

29. … .then the project will be exhibited outside Baltic in Newcastle-Gateshead, October 2007, to an audience of over 12000 people….

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