Grow Free Community Foundation purchased fencing materials and garden tools to start up community food forests after receiving £4445 from the Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund.

The bio-diverse food forests will have a sustainable permaculture design and help to build the knowledge and skills to cultivate, preserve and share a year-round local food supply.

Through the process of creating the community gardens and food forests, a number of Grow Free’s members are learning skills that support sustainable local food production. A by-product has been the development of local volunteer work parties and skill sharing for other sites and projects.