Growing Together
2020 - 2022
Horton Community Farm and Grow To School joined forces to create their Growing Together project and received £30,200 to bring parents/carers and young children together to learn to grow, cook and eat their own produce at Horton Community Farm, SHINE at St Stephen’s, CHAS @ St Vincent’s and Canterbury Centre for Children and Families.
They ran seasonal sessions with a focus on food growing and play, sharing knowledge with families and practitioners about when and how best to grow specific fruits and vegetables that could be used for cooking and eating.
The idea was that families and practitioners would then be able to use this learning at home and within the community to ‘grow their own’.
Why this project was developed
Growing Together aimed to foster a love and understanding of growing your own produce to encourage healthy lifestyles and change behaviours around food, poor diets, food choices and nutrition.
It also aimed to increase skills in gardening and growing as well as engaging communities to access and enjoy outdoor spaces.
Background, impact and findings
Further reading
In this blog post, Charlie Gray from Growing Together shares how the pandemic helped their project grow in a new direction.
Charlie Gray from Horton Community Farm, and Ama Chaney from Grow To School, show how community growing projects can bloom despite social restrictions.
This snapshot of Growing Together showcases the achievements, challenges, outputs of Horton Community Farm and Grow To School's Growing Together project, together with its impact and outcomes.
Activities for families with little ones including growing food, bug hunts, playing in the sand pit, clambering on the boulders and nature themed crafts.
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