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09/05/2026

09/05/2026

Save the date!

Join us on Wednesday, October 14 to learn about what we've accomplished at our one year “warehouse-a-versary”!

Drop-in anytime from 2pm-7pm to talk with our member agencies and supporters, plus have some light refreshments!

08/27/2026

A Brazilian scientist spent more than 40 YEARS working on a way to help crops grow without relying so heavily on expensive synthetic fertilizer.

Her solution?

Bacteria.

Dr. Mariangela Hungria developed biological treatments using beneficial soil bacteria that help plants access nitrogen from the AIR.

Normally, farmers have to supply huge amounts of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer to crops.

But these microbes can convert atmospheric nitrogen into forms plants can actually use.

The result has been massive.

Her technology is now used across tens of millions of hectares in Brazil.

Some bacterial treatments can cost just a few dollars per hectare, compared with roughly $30 to $50 for conventional nitrogen fertilizer.

The World Food Prize estimates her work saves Brazilian farmers around $25 BILLION every year.

It also prevents roughly 230 MILLION metric tons of CO₂-equivalent emissions.

And after four decades of research, Hungria was awarded the World Food Prize for helping transform Brazilian agriculture.

She spent 40 years studying microscopic bacteria.

They ended up saving farmers billions.

08/27/2026

Hutton House Employment Services received a $230,000 Community Vitality grant from London Community Foundation in 2021 to support their program called The Patch - an accessible community garden running out of Cavendish Community Food Hub. Root Awakening - a documentary about The Patch, told through the lens of volunteer Faye Simmons - takes us behind the scenes at The Patch and explores some of the issues surrounding food security in London.
Learn more and watch the documentary at https://loom.ly/cK_MEV4