Be part of a better food system in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter
A Slow Food Project
created and led by Slow Food Birmingham
Community Green Space
Gather, the community garden and cafe will be located on level 5 of the car park. This floor will also be home to the Biodiversity Centre and education hub that will enable partnerships with local schools and colleges. Hospitality businesses and growers will also interact here, helping reconnect people with where their food comes from and how it’s grown, alongside promoting the need for biodiversity in food cultivation and cooking.
Become part of the community here.
High Rise Harvest design concept by Urban Design Hub, via Innovation UK Funding from the WMCA.
High Rise Harvest is supported by Food Trails,
Food Trails is a four-year EU-funded Horizon 2020 project, bringing together a consortium of 19 European partners, including 11 cities, 3 universities and 5 organisations.
The project aims to enable cities to reimagine, develop and implement sustainable, healthy and inclusive food policies.
Each partner city runs a pilot project, a “Living Lab“, a space for work, dialogue and collaboration to foster innovation, connect local key stakeholders, and collect evidence to support urban policy change in food.
Slow Food International and Birmingham City Council are key stakeholders in Food Trails.
Learn more here.
Shop for Sustainable Food Now
Much of what we eat arrives at our table as the result of the wasteful and carbon intensive global supply chains that major supermarkets operate.
Slow Food Brum already offers a tastier and more sustainable alternative that supports the local economy and is kinder to the planet. Ordering via the Slow Food Hub means you can have access to fresh, healthy and good quality food everyweek.
Learn more about the
Slow Food Movment here.
Thanks to Incredible Surplus and our Slow Food volunteers, we have already begun testing the theory.
Twice a month we use the Incredible Surplus Electic Van to collect produce from Local to Ludlow, Top Barn, Macneils Smokehouse and Peter Cooks Bread. This has enabled us to know it is possible to support small producers find a sustainable route to market in Birmingham, and will lead to us building a network with farmers to help provide the Food Justice Network with seasonal food.
High Rise Harvest believes everyone should have access to food that is good for us and good for the planet.
Support the Good Food Fund help Slow Food Brum buy food from local farmers and hub producers to make up veg boxes, and food parcels for people in food crisis.
Sustainable Food System
Slow Food UK's transformative plans to turn part of the Vyse St multi-storey car park into an urban farm and green space have been given the go ahead by city planners. One councillor on the planning committee said “this will be a green jewel in the Jewellery Quarter’s crown’. Others noted it was a unique approach and a good opportunity for the city.
The scheme, taking a whole system approach, the first of its kind in the UK, is proposed for Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter and will “turn grey to green”, with a host of elements, including:
* Greenhouses, mushroom farm and traditional vegetable patches;
*Community green space and garden;
* Cafe championing local and seasonal produce
* A space to develop a new, circular approach to local food systems that minimises waste and pioneers more sustainable logistics practices
High Rise Harvest's Biodiversity Center will deliver a holistic approach to addressing food-related issues, including education, entrepreneurship, poverty alleviation, and environmental sustainability.
The Innovation Kitchen will support women from marginalised communities in our city to create strong viable food business, building on the project’s aims of providing our city with local, seasonal and sustainable food.
Contact us at
hello@highriseharvest.org.uk