Currently: Mikey is running a series of walks around Hackney from 18th August to 4th September as part of the Edible Map, a project to map 25 hectares of Hackney as an edible landscape. It is funded by SPACE gallery 2010 – 2011, with additional funding by the Royal Geographically Society for 2011 as part of the RGR-IBS conference .

The edible map is an A2 printed map used for a series of edible tours of Hackney, from London Fields to Harkney City Farm. Each walk, which last 2 hours, takes a meander through the back streets of a small area of Hackney as we image the various grassed, empty, and disused spaces full of food gardens. During the walk, we talk, and the conversations are used to inform ourselves about the possible changes to the urban environment need to incorporate food gardens.

This project was started in 2010 and a digital version of the edible map with some of the conversations is here.

YOU ARE HUNGRY: MAPPING AN EDIBLE URBAN HACKNEY

Mikey is currently Studying for a PhD at Brighton University. He is also a beekeeper and works part-time as Sustain as the Capital Bee officer, promoting community beekeeping in London.

Contact Mikey at mikeytomkins at gmail dot com