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“Plot to Plate – Growing Well” will build on HHEAG’s successes over 12 years delivering an integrated range of food-based, educative, community activities in an area of social and health inequalities.

Polly's Patch will be a collaborative project enabling children and their families to work with the school gardener and volunteers during and after school and through the holidays and at weekends.

The Treewise Kitchen Garden is a community growing and cooking project for families with young children. The idea has grown out of the work of an outdoor parent and toddler group based in an orchard in rural West Dorset.

Growing for Health will be a school gardening club run out of school hours which will provide an opportunity for pupils to learn how to grow fruit and vegetables in the school's 1 acre walled garden.

Land kindly offered to rent by the national trust will be prepared and enclosed with deer fencing then a communal shed, compost bins and raised beds will be constructed/erected.

Promoting Sustainable and Wildlife friendly methods of producing food this project will create a new forest gardening demonstration garden and greenhouse / sustainable food educational area within the grounds of an animal sanctuary and environmental charity (Wild futures)

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Grow@Jigsaw is a new project building on the work of our Jigsaw Project, currently comprising a recycle and re-use furniture project and an allotment giving learning and work experience to vulnerable and isolated people.

This project will identify new opportunities for local farmers/other food producers to meet the needs of local commercial outlets through local production, and to expand opportunities for local direct marketing.

After a successful pilot in Bristol, it is intended to deliver a national programme, called ‘Grow Zones’, whereby people work in teams to set each other’s gardens up for growing edible produce.

This project will enable many more people in Somerset to have access to affordable, locally grown and healthy food.

‘Home Grown – Community Owned’ is a new 5 year project, which will work with communities across Devon to develop their capacity to grow their own food.

Occombe Farm is a 150 acre organic livestock farm on the edge of Paignton in Devon.

The National Trust aims to build better links with local communities.

Local Food Links, a social enterprise in Dorset, aims to develop a new user led catering service for older people.

Polly's Patch is a collaborative project enabling children and their families to work with the school gardener and volunteers during and after school and through the holidays and at weekends.

The Ashtree Cottage Garden Project will be a centre at Holton Lee which will provide horticultural growing, learning and rehabilitation opportunities for volunteers, disabled people and the local community.

The ‘Local food on local radio project’ will produce a series of radio programmes that will be broadcast of Forest of Dean Community radio (FODCR).

The new Diggin It Outreach project will enable teachers, parents, children and disadvantaged groups to build their own gardens and grow their own food on their own sites; and surplus fresh produce will be sold within their communities at an affordable price.

A school in Ottery St. Mary, Devon wants to recognise and embrace the South West climate and its predicted climate change and intends to grow Mediterranean fruits, herbs & vegetables for school use.

The Cornwall Commnuity Food and Composting project will raise the profile and importance of local food production within disadvantaged communities and increase the number of people that have the knowledge, expertise and motivation to develop or support larger projects.

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