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.
| Month | Subject | Type | Time | Venue |
| Thur
10 June | Project – Field
garden | Garden
Visit |
| Please
ring P. Poole 414611 |
| June/July | | Practical | TBD | Community
Orchard Ring
412165 |
| Thu
8 July |
Productivity
- biodynamics |
Garden
Visit | | |
| Thur
12 August |
Produce
rotation | Garden
Visit | | |
| Thu
9 September | Preserving
food | Indoor
demonstration |
Ring
419599 | |
| Sat
9 October | | Outdoor | |
Please ring 412165 |
| Thu
11 November | Permaculture
| Video
| | TBD
ring 412165 |
| Thu
9 December | Party
time | Social
event | | The
Anchor, Gloucester Rd, Thornbury |
| Thu
13 January 2011 |
Programme
Planning and seed swap |
Indoor | |
|
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. For other enquiries, e-mail food AT sustainablethornbury DOT org. (Sorry this looks odd, but please replace AT with @ and DOT with . We show it this way to reduce spam.)
Click here for the Grow Your Own Food wiki page, with up-to-date news and views.