Growing food to create a valuable resource for our community, to improve health & environment.
This is how:
1. By growing food for our community, on no-dig, regenerative, organic principles. And donating some to those who have a need but can’t afford it.
To achieve this, we will sell the food we grow to the public to cover our costs, and donate a proportion Free of Charge, to local social enterprises such as: Healthy Valleys, Clydesdale Food Bank, Biggar Youth Project’s FREE FOOD HUB and Braw Clan’s Soup & a Story project. To be able to do this in a meaningful way, we hope to employ an experienced Project Leader / Market Garden Manager to work with our volunteers and control the whole operation as we extend and develop our total growing area. Thus allowing us to grow more food in the future.
2. By educating our community, (young & old) to grow and cook healthier food.
Firstly, we are developing projects with local nurseries, primary & high schools, to encourage children to eat more vegetables and learn how to grow them.
In addition, we will upload educational videos on growing tips to Youtube and Facebook.
Finally, we have started a biodiversity project to show the importance of maintaining nature’s biodiversity, to enable us to grow healthier food without chemicals, and thrive in a cleaner environment.
3. By inviting volunteers to work together in the fresh air, to boost their health and wellbeing.
We now have over 30 volunteers helping in various ways with the project. Several joined to gain access to a community of like-minded people, and have already commented on enjoying the social aspects as well as the physical wellbeing of working together in the fresh air and contributing to providing healthy produce for the benefit of our community.
And, the more we can encourage our community to do the same in their own gardens, (young & old), the healthier we will all be as a result, both physically and mentally.