Set up new community garden in your area.

If you are focusing on supporting more food growing in your city, we hope a city-wide campaign like Veg Cities can galvanise activity and help you expand the number of growing spaces. So let’s get growing more!

Getting started

• Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens resources including community growing resource packs for Scotland, England and Wales.
• Lewisham’s guide to creating a community garden  
• Finding the Plot: Access to land for food growing groups in urban areas
• Grow More Food: Top Tips
• Incredible Edible Network model

For more ambitious projects

• Growing Enterprise Guide
• Urban Farming Toolkit: A guide to growing to sell in the city

Measuring impact

• Which tool to use? A guide for evaluating health and wellbeing outcomes
• How much you’re growing (Harvest-ometer)

Linking with the health community / social prescribing

• Guide to engaging with health service and getting commissioned
• Growing Health case studies

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Veg Cities is working with restaurants and catering across the UK to help people grow, cook, sell, serve and save more vegetables.

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