Support for community food growing projects!
‘Home Grown – Community Owned’ will be a 3 year project, which will work with over 30 different communities across Devon to develop new projects, assets, skills and opportunities that enable local people to grow their own food.
For rural residents on low incomes, the prospect of ever rising fuel and food costs is alarming. ‘Home Grown – Community owned’ will work with these people in developing local projects. For others, the reason for getting into growing food may be driven by health concerns or wanting to do more to cut down their “carbon footprint”. ‘Home Grown – Community owned’ will build on country traditions. These include the creative use of resources, working together, and self-sufficiency.
The project will work with up to 60 local groups or organisations. These could be: Parish Councils, Village Hall Trusts, community organisations, campaigning groups, or initially just a few individuals keen to work together.
You get:
. • Advice: Support from an experienced project worker, to advise upon development of their local project, help mobilise local support and act as advocate /negotiator on their behalf from the germ of an idea to fruition.
. • Cash: Communities will get up to £250 as a seed fund towards their planned activities.
. • Training: Understanding local needs and helping find and pay for relevant training and mentoring will be an option if wanted
. • Professional expertise with initial fees provided. For example, a solicitor to draw up an occupancy license for land, or a permaculture designer to help plan the plot lay-out.
. • Networking: To be part of network of growing projects who can share experience, skills and seeds!
‘Home Grown – Community owned’ is a partnership project of Community Council of Devon, Devon Association of Parish Councils, Devon Association of Community Buildings and the Devon Playing Fields Association. In discussion are major landowners and the Primary Care Trust.
Interested Contact Dawn Ekhart Tel: 01392383681 Email dawn@devonrcc.org.uk
