One Planet Food is helping to make affordable, delicious and nutritious local food more accessible to residents and helping them get fit and healthy through growing their own. The project is run by local environmental charities BioRegional and EcoLocal.
Food growing and healthy eating training
Research showed a high demand from local residents for adult food growing courses for beginners, family learning, and a need to increase knowledge about healthy eating in a fun, non-judgmental way. In answer to this, EcoLocal has developed a food growing training centre on a local allotment, where people can learn food growing skills hands-on. See EcoLocal’s Local Food Network for more details about upcoming courses.
Sutton’s first community farm near Carshalton and Wallington
Sutton Community Farm was set up in 2010 on a disused 7.5-acre smallholding to increase organic local food production in Sutton and beyond. We aim to provide a model for small scale sustainable farming in London, to develop vocational opportunities and create employment. The farm is now a social enterprise, we run a veg box delivery scheme and supply other London box schemes and food outlets.The farm also holds activity days, get in touch to find out more.
Sutton Community Farm is located at the Woodcote smallholdings near Wallington. The address is Telegraph Track, Wallington, Surrey, SM6 0SH. Click here for directions and to find out more, visit: www.suttoncommunityfarm.org.uk
Veg Box
Sign up to Sutton Community Farm’s truly local veg box: a weekly bag of fresh, delicious vegetables, direct from the farm delivered to your door or nearby drop-off point! To order your box, click here, contact Sam Smith (sam@suttoncommunityfarm.org.uk) or call either tel: 020 8404 7085 or mob: 07815 715 973.
Thank you so much for all your support – we’ve loved getting to know you and hope you can be part of this new exciting Veg box adventure!
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Thank you to our funders: Big Lottery Local Food Fund, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, NHS Sutton and Merton, Sutton Council and with in-kind support from Southern Railway.
The team will monitor the environmental, social and economic impacts of the programme in order to gauge its effectiveness in reducing the area’s ecological footprint and benefitting the local economy.
