Local Origin

At the London Fruit and Wool Exchange, we’re processing food waste from Ashurst and turning into compost, which we’re then using to grow microgreens (all on site). We’re also growing oyster mushrooms 🍄‍🟫

On Earth day, the Ashurst catering team prepared dishes for staff using our produce, to celebrate the circularity of our collaboration, through delicious, locally-sourced food!

The colours of the microgreen tent on full display and the harvests smells great too

Red Thai basil, Red Russian Kale, Amaranth, Alfalfa and Coriander

Can’t wait to try this Red Amaranth, looks so nice under the lights

Oyster mushroom tagliatelle 🫰🏻

Oyster mushrooms plotting their escape from the mayonnaise bucket

Coriander microgreens 🌿

Ink cap mushrooms growing in amongst the woodchip, cardboard and fresh veg scraps in the wormery 🍄‍🟫🫶🏻

Delighted to announce that we have won a Silver Green Apple Award for our partnership with at London Fruit & Wool Exchange.

Together, we are processing food waste from the site into a compost and liquid fertiliser which we will use to grow food produce for the kitchens on site. Circularity on a hyperlocal scale.

On to the World Awards in 2026.

First day setting up our urban farming installation at the London Fruit & Wool Exchange, big thanks to for getting us going with this ❤️

Woodchip delivery for our hot composting operations at the London Fruit & Wool Exchange!

Takes about twice as long to get anywhere on this bike with woodchip in the trailer but it combines good exercise with emissions free transport and recycles the woodchip into our compost 🪵🪏🍄‍🟫🌱

Hoping to catch some passing clouds with our first trial for rain water collection at the LFWE site.

Working in a very unique urban setting means lots of opportunities for innovation and iteration. Hopefully this leak diverter connected to a water butt, will enable us to start collecting enough rainwater to keep our compost piles moist and to support our initial growing trials.

Captain Jimmy and Dumitru setting up yesterday evening!