UK: Leanne Werner who wants to green our cities and grow more food
Nick Easen meets the woman who is trying to spark an urban horticultural revolution in Britain – transforming what we grow in our cities
By Nick Easen
Wicked Leeks
May 21, 2026
Excerpt:
Leanne is co-founder of Wilder, a London-based social enterprise focused on creating more spaces for wildlife, boosting biodiversity, and growing produce in urban settings. The organisation has worked on greening and de-paving spaces around Tate Britain and Tate Modern, Borough Market and Kings College, as well as community projects in council estates and schools. They also want to wild one square mile of Southwark.
“Food growing can also boost biodiversity in cities. When we’re designing new housing estates and new build environment projects, we should be putting green areas and food at the centre of these developments. This is now the case in other countries,” states Leanne.
In recent times she has travelled to Canada and the U.S. as part of a Churchill Fellowship to look at cities there, some of which have more progressive laws than the UK, legislating for green roofs and giving over more space to nature and food growing within city boundaries.
“The University of Toronto has huge growing spaces on top of their buildings, where young people learn to grow their own vegetables. They produce a lot of food for students and food banks, while in Detroit they have ‘agri-hoods,’ amazing food growing city spaces. The authorities have a database where you can look for renting or buying land relatively cheaply. In Vancouver they are also growing food in disused car parks and roadside verges,” details Werner, a former London councillor.
Source: https://cityfarmer.info/uk-leanne-werner-who-wants-to-green-our-cities-and-grow-more-food/
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