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Partners, projects and inspiring people

A big thank you to the following for their generous support:

     Tuckers Seeds
Agricultural merchants, country stores & maltsters.

   St Bridget Nursery
Have been growing beautiful plants in Exeter for over 80 years and our garden centres really are the gardener’s choice.


   The Carbon Compost Company
Manufacture a specially formulated soil improver containing treated charcoal waste and composted animal manure.
 

Shillingford Organics
Do you know where your food comes from? Would you enjoy receiving a weekly delivery of fresh organic vegetables and herbs? Would you like to be safe in the knowledge that you are getting fresh, organic produce that has been planted, grown and harvested only a few miles from your home? Based in a small village on the outskirts of Exeter, we grow over 60 different types of vegetables and herbs organically. Most of these you will be familiar with. We also try to provide varieties suited to our soil and climate, which you won't find in the shops.

Linscombe Farm
Linscombe Organic Vegetables is run as a traditional family farming partnership.

Organisations in and around Exeter:

Love Local Food
Love Local Food is a new social enterprise and not-for-profit business initiated by Emma's Bread, Shillingford Organics, West Town Farm and organicARTS. We aim to have a positive effect on the communities that Love Local Food serves, and those who work for it. Any profits are returned to the business, which also offers educational opportunities about food, the environment and personal well-being, to all sectors of the community.

OrganicARTS
OrganicARTS promotes the arts and rural issues through educational visits and walks, classes, workshops, community projects, exhibitions and performances. These take place at West Town Farm, other local farms and in the wider community.

West Town Farm
West Town Farm is a beautiful organic farm with a difference. Not only are we just 3 miles from Exeter, creating a perfect escape from city life, we also offer a variety of possibilities for you to be a part of West Town Farm.

Home Grown - Community Owned (HogCO)
Live outside Exeter? Home Grown - Community Owned (HogCO) is a 5 year programme working with rural communities across Devon to support local food projects. They help groups to join together to develop skills and seek opportunities to grow their own food. Contact them to find out what's happening in your area.

Bookcycle
Book-Cycle is a UK based volunteer run Charity. We seek to empower communities in developing countries through the provision of free books and educational resources. We also encourage the reforestation of rural England by offering free trees and information on self-sustainability.

Steward Community Woodland
Steward Community Woodland is a permaculture project which aims to demonstrate the value of integrating conservation woodland management techniques with organic growing, traditional skills and crafts and low-impact sustainable living

Men in Sheds
Men in Sheds has attracted a great deal of interest and is designed for men, run by men and as the name suggests the group meet in a shed! The project collects, restores and renovates garden tools that have fallen into a state of disrepair and once restored the tools are sent to Tools for Reliance where they are distributed to some countries in Africa.

POGOE
Permaculture & Organic Growers Of Exeter.

Stallcombe House
Stallcombe House is a residential community for adults with learning disabilities, providing a happy and safe work place with a holistic and organic approach to personal health and the living environment.

Exeter Community Agriculture
An evolving organisation, working together to share skills and grow organic food. Exeter Community Agriculture is committed to reconnecting people with the land and how their food is grown, as well as providing a place for recreation and community.

Broadclyst Community Farm
Are setting up a sustainable farm providing food and education to the community while re-establishing the environmental and agricultural heritage of the farm.

Real Food Store
A social enterprise, set up with capital invested by members of the community who have bought shares. It's about community ownership: This is your store!

Further afield:

Local Action on Food
An active network of people and projects from across the UK that are working towards Sustain's goal of creating a strong and healthy sustainable food system.

Landshare
Landshare brings together people who have a passion for home-grown food, connecting those who have land to share with those who need land for cultivating food.

Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens
The Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens supports, represents and promotes community-managed farms, gardens and other productive green spaces across the United Kingdom, enabling local communities to grow.

Diggin' It
Diggin' It is a lottery funded community garden working with schools and community organisations to develop their gardens and learn about healthy living. We grow and sell vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers on unused allotment land that has been made available by Plymouth City Council. 
 
Diggin' It is one of a number of projects run by Routeways, a Plymouth charity.

Incredible Edible Todmorden
Aims to provide access to good local food for all, through: working together; learning - from field to classroom to kitchen; supporting local business. Speaking the common language of food to make change happen.

Food From the Sky
Food From the Sky is a world first – A pioneering food growing and educational initiative on the roof top of Thornton’s Budgens supermarket, Crouch End, North London.

Abundance
A growing movement that aims to make better use of neglected local fruit trees such as apples, pears and plums by organising volunteers to harvest the fruit.

Leeds Urban Harvest
Leeds Urban Harvest is a volunteer-run project that collects and distributes soft fruits that grow unharvested around Leeds on trees and bushes in both public and private spaces.

Food Up Front
Food Up Front is a food growing network in South West London, that encourages and supports people to grow food in whatever space they have available, especially un-used space like front gardens, balconies and window sills.

Global Generation
Dedicated to giving young people opportunities to play a part in creating a sustainable future.

Vegetableseeds.net
A great value supplier of vegetable seeds to UK allotmenteers.