Community Food Growing
The Community Food Growing Project encourages and supports people in growing food by sharing experience, making resources available, and offering training sessions and workshops in organic food growing.
We help develop existing growing projects and support new ones. This project covers Sussex, focusing on target wards in the area as part of overall improvement to healthy eating, lifestyle, and mental wellbeing. Recent and ongoing activities include:
TRAINING and WORKSHOPS on
• Food growing, including accredited training in organic horticulture and farm work experience
• Fruit tree planting and management
• Basic organic fruit and vegetable growing at community allotment
• Organic growing, and cooking what’s been grown, for primary school children
RESOURCES and INFORMATION
• Re-printing the booklet ‘Eating Outside the Box’ containing recipes and ideas for using vegetables, in cooperation with Lewes District Council
• Providing the recipes from ‘The Friendly Vegetable Book’ as downloadable PDF files arranged by season.
• Making more widely available the children’s nutritional trumps card game ‘Beet That!’
ADVICE and SUPPORT
• Working with Lewes District Council to organise the annual seed-swap and growing event “Seedy Saturday” including talks on growing veg and fruit.
• Arranging Fruit Tree Doctor home visits
• Development and support for Ringmer Community Orchard
• Regular ongoing support at Lewes Organic Allotment Project
• Mentoring and support for new community food growing projects
Community Food Growing is a Common Cause project funded by the Big Lottery Fund as part of the Chances 4 Change regional Wellbeing Programme
news and events
Look here for excellent resource full of useful advice!
Download as pdf
Garden to share? Looking for growing space? See Lewes Residents LandShare .
The Big Lunch, a national scheme about growing and sharing food this summer, has growing tips here.
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The Friendly Vegetable Book is now available online!
Download recipes for
spring,
summer,
autumn, and
winter plus soups, sauces, dips, dressing, and sweet things
here.
Or see the whole cookbook.
Community Food Growing
Contact(s): Katharine Finnegan