Harvest

Harvest is an Exeter-wide food growing project, funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food Fund.

Harvest encourages people to grow food in their local community, through a range of activities:

• START SMALL – Incredible Edible MiniGardens for new growers or those with limited space, with support from volunteer Growing Champions;
• WORK TOGETHER – help turn unused land into community growing space, or join a garden share scheme;
• GET INVOLVED as a volunteer in a variety of ways;
• GET TOGETHER and share the Harvest! Regular seasonal events celebrate our achievements.

Harvest News

Harvest Produce Swap and Launch Party

Bring your surplus produce and swap with other growers.

Apple pressing, children’s activities, local food café, gardening demonstrations and much more. Plus the launch of the Harvest Community Gardens and Garden Share scheme.

Saturday 25th September

11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

St Sidwell’s Centre, Sidwell Street, Exeter, EX4 6NN

Admission Free

All Welcome

Incredible Edible MiniGarden Giveaway events

During July the Harvest team visited 9 Exeter neighbourhoods, distributing starter kits for people to set up their own Incredible Edible MiniGardens. The giveaway events were a big success, with 118 people having received containers, compost, seeds and seedlings to get growing. The kits were completely free to people who met certain criteria (eg living in one of our target areas, not having a garden, being on a low income).

Don’t forget, if you have a MiniGarden we’d like to know how you're getting on, so we’re inviting all minigardeners to take photos of their containers and send them to us. We’ll display all the photos at the Produce Swap and Launch Party on September 25th, and there will be prizes for the best ones. Send your photos to andit@eci.org.uk or by post: Harvest, Exeter Community Initiatives, 14 York Road, Exeter EX4 6BA.

The MiniGarden giveaways are now finished for 2010, but we’ll be distributing more kits next spring – let us know if you’d like to be involved.

For more details visit the Incredible, Edible Mini-Gardens page.

For further details, contact Andi Tobe or Ellie Parker on 01392 661330 or email andit@eci.org.uk or ellie@eci.org.uk.

Please click here to view the Harvest leaflet.