Little Seeds, Big Plans – Tullibody Community Garden
The Tullibody Community Garden successfully applied for one of our 2024 Seed Grants and their project ‘Little Seeds, Big Plans’ was a great success. Here’s what they have to say about it:
“Our intention was to supply seeds and compost along with advice, to other groups and organizations on how to grow on their own sites and in our own garden. Giving other groups the opportunity to build a sustainable fairer future by giving them opportunities to use the community garden for learning and build up connections while developing our garden into a fully organic environmentally site. We hope to make the connection between growing plant-based foods and awareness of climate change.”
“Demonstrating ‘climate friendly’ gardening is a must for us. This is how to garden without single use plastic; reducing use of plastic pots by reusing and recycling suitable other containers thereby reducing waste; managing pests by encouraging beneficial insects and other ‘climate friendly’ means to remove need for artificial insecticides and improving soil through natural methods so that artificial fertilizers are not needed.”
“The funding enabled us to run a ‘Grow your own Food’ session and not only show people how easy it can be to grow vegetables but be able to give them packs to take home with them. We also have made links with local schools to support them to grow vegetables and fruit within the school grounds. We made the community more aware of climate change and its effects, as the focus of our project was on sustainability and fairer community, but while undertaking events and future sessions we have and will bring awareness by discussing in a practicable way.”
“Following our event, we will now have a group of local people growing and sharing the food they grow. We have also been able to link with other organizations and have plans for future joint events.”
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