Growing Communities

A few of us spent a day at the Castle Climbing Centre in Stoke Newington to help prepare a new plot for Growing Communities vegetable box schemes. The Castle has fairly large grounds outside that will be turned into raised bed vegetable plots and run by the community and staff from the centre. Growing Communities is a social enterprise run by local people in Hackney. Trying to create a more sustainable food supply system in the area. A few small market gardens are used to grow organic vegetables at different locations and then delivered to markets or by box schemes. It was good to do something physical for a while and get of the computer so I spent most of the day digging. We also made a trip to an already established garden to look at the mainly salad crop beds that surprisingly had survived the snow.

More about the work the growing communities do Here