Grow Your Own Food group

The Grow Your Own Food group is a self-help group trying to use gardens and allotments to grow fruit and vegetables to eat. 

We want to encourage and support local people to grow their own food. We have monthly meetings to swap ideas, swap seeds and work on each others gardens. 

Growing our own food is very sustainable - there are no food miles and we can grow without chemical fertilisers or pesticides. We can grow for taste rather than shelf life and eat it within minutes of picking.  And it's good fun.

The Grow Your Own Food group meets each month or so. Some meetings are practical, where we go outdoors and actually get our hands dirty and do some growing, some are garden visits and some are indoors where we chat about our garden plans and books, seek advice about problems, share seeds, seedlings and produce. Sometimes we invite speakers in. We also maintain the Community Orchard in Thornbury.

Below are some pictures of a jam-making session.

To sign up for email or phone reminders please ring 412165.

Some of the dates and details are on the diary dates page. To be told about upcoming meetings and their venues, send a blank e-mail to gyof-subscribe AT yahoogroups DOT com. (Sorry this looks odd, but please replace AT with @ and DOT with . We show it this way to reduce spam.) For other enquiries, e-mail food AT sustainablethornbury DOT org. 

Click here for the Grow Your Own Food wiki page, with up-to-date news and views.