Project: From Seed to Table

Produce used will help to provide nutritious affordable meals in our community café, for student lunches and for our over 65’s weekly lunch clubs and lunch delivery service. The project will benefit both adults with learning disabilities and other disadvantaged groups who experience difficulty in accessing learning opportunities locally . “Seed to Table” will provide these groups with vocational training and work experience and signpost them towards further accredited training, volunteering and potentially paid employment. We will grow quality food while engaging disadvantaged people in work which is commensurate with their skills.

We intend also to engage members of our over 65's lunch groups, both to tap into their existing experience and to involve them in productive and healthy activities. All beneficiaries will be involved in design and layout through to harvesting and distribution. Composting will reduce the amount of community café waste currently sent to landfill. By using greenhouse structures we intend to extend the growing season, selling on vegetable plants to the wider community to grow themselves.

Our twelve month aim is to grow local food, provide nutritious meals and to engage at least 20 disadvantaged adults in learning new skills and to encourage cross generational integration through the sharing of expertise. Long term we believe that the project could become self sustaining through sales of meals, produce and plants.