In 2011 student nurse Louise started growing with local schools and groups on land at East Malling Trust. Now a market garden with over 5 acres to cultivate later this year.
Communigrow is a Joining Hands project for Kent with aims to be a local charitable social enterprise in 2014.
We grow fresh, tasty, seasonal food and craft produce in Ditton for families who live within easy walking distance using only organic and other methods and aim to enhance the sustainability of the area in many ways both on and off the plot.
This year we’ll be growing more than ever and want to share the harvest with over 200 local families over time as one part of our ‘Community Supported Agriculture’.
As a charitable organisation we can employ our team of growers and expand. Introducing an apprenticeship scheme for on-site training within our crew of workers who will aim to help local people with recipes, cookery demonstrations and workshops to inspire more use of the range of local produce from the plot and to eat more fresh foods, our ‘Good Veg Club’.
Our team share skills with the membership through routine tasks such as sowing and harvest.
Further farms and market gardens are being researched for community support - a 5 acre orchard and an urban farm.
Follow us at: www.facebook.com/larkfieldanddittonlocalfood
Contact Communigrow on Call 07806 708 386
email: harvest@communigrow.org
For more info on community supported agriculture go to http://www.soilassociation.org/communitysupportedagriculture/
The Communigrow plot is at Park House, Bradbourne Lane, ME20 6PE
(access and visitors strictly by arrangement and invitation only)
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