East Suffolk is a traditional growing area and we’ve been building on these foundations by funding community growing spaces and delivering another round of our successful grow-at-home kits for school children and their families.

With funding from the Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund and East Suffolk Council’s Ease the Squeeze programme, we’ve now funded 37 community growing spaces in East Suffolk, improving and expanding community allotments, establishing vegetable gardens in schools and connecting community growing projects into food banks and other food projects. 

These community growing spaces attract dozens of volunteers who are getting involved in growing, but it’s our Field to Fork home growing kits that really expand the number of confident growers. We’ve now handed out nearly 5,000 free home-growing kits to school-children and their families, giving many families their first experience of home-grown vegetables, herbs and fruit. At last count, over £130,000 worth of produce had been grown at home using the kits.