Aims and Objectives

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Harvest Aims & Objectives

Harvest is a city-wide project, encouraging people to engage in food-growing activities in their local community. The project will encourage greater community involvement through developing relationships, and co-ordinating resource- and skill-sharing. It will mainly target areas of the city where people are experiencing disadvantage and have limited access to growing opportunities, and will aim to build confidence in the participants.

Harvest will encourage people to grow food through:

• Providing 'starter kits' for people with limited space to grow their own Harvest Mini Garden
• Providing training and ongoing support to new growers
• Enabling community members to share their skills and knowledge
• Supporting schools in their food growing activities
• Identifying sites for community growing
• Promoting the health & wellbeing, environmental and economic benefits of growing food

Harvest will organise events and skill-sharing opportunities related to food and growing, encouraging participants and the wider public to celebrate local food and their own achievements. This is a community-led project, and once established, it is hoped that community members will continue to run and develop the activities.