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growingpeople
Growing food and sharing skills in London's schools and communities
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About us
We are an environmental and social enterprise based in Hackney, delivering a range of food growing and sustainable gardening workshops in schools, housing associations and various other community groups. These can be in the form of one-off sessions, or long projects which run for several months.
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growing people have successfully helped groups set up food-growing initiatives all over London, working with diverse members of the community. The aim in all these workshops is to provide participants with the skills needed to successfully create and maintain a productive space, however small the land or concrete area available to them.
We believe that food-growing can be a valuable part of young peoples’ education, and we are passionate about sharing knowledge and skills which can enable more people in cities to grow their own, whether they have a garden, patio, balcony, or window sill. Our gardening methods are entirely organic and chemical-free.
Please click the links at the top of the page for further information, read my first blog post, Railroads and Radishes for an idea of the motivations behind growing people, or contact Emilie Charlesworth at emilie.growingpeople@gmail.com or on 07886 784 962
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- artthiefgarden
- Balcony Greens
- Calthorpe Project
- Capital Growth
- Container Gardening
- Dalston Eastern Curve Garden
- East London Community Recycling Partnership
- Emma Cooper
- Emorsgate Seeds
- FARM:
- Food Ethics Council
- Food for Life
- Food up Front
- Freightliners City Farm
- Garden Organic
- Groundwork London
- Growing Communities
- Guardian Gardens
- Hackney City Farm
- Incredible Edible Todmorden
- Independent Gardening
- Leaside Wood Recycling Project
- Living Roofs
- Making Local Food Work
- National Community Wood Recycling Project
- Naturewise
- Organic Lea
- Permaculture Association
- Real Seeds
- Rhythms of Nature
- Riverwood Project
- Royal Horticultural Society
- Soil Association
- Spitalfields City Farm
- Sustain
- The Agroforestry Research Trust
- The Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens
- The Tracing Paper
- The Urban Organic Gardener
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