Throughout the growing season we’d like you to conduct a quick count of the different types of pollinating insect that are visiting any food crops that are flowering in your growing space. Our pollinator identification sheets and training events will help with telling the different groups apart.

We’d like to understand more about how insect pollination affects the yields of food crops grown in Brighton & Hove. To help us do this, we’d like you to keep a record of the weight and/or number of food items harvested from your insect-pollinated crops throughout the growing season.

We know little about pests in urban food growing, nor the methods used to control them and how this may affect both crop yields and pollinators. We’d like you to keep a diary of the pests and diseases you observe on your flowering crops, and which methods you use to control them, particularly any chemicals used.