Growing Birmingham — the Forum’s first spin-off

At the very first New Optimists Forum meeting last November, the notion of encouraging and celebrating local food growing was aired.

And so a few weeks ago, the city parks boss Darren Share, Jim Parle and I met to talk about what we could do to celebrate the great stuff that’s already going on, and encourage much, much more. 

Out of that conversation was born GrowingBirmingham.org only last week.

We’ve been delighted by the response so far, and are busily finding people who can make it all happen. If you’re one of them, please get in touch via here.