Kitchen Garden People Propagation Unit

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We grow good food for local people following organic principles and are looking to fund a propagation unit on our land that will enable us to show the food cycle from seed to plate and back again.

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Costs

Staging - 20 x modular static 1.2m benches £2,971
Vents £1,680
Staging - Heavy duty potting Bench £1,303
Extra Door £710
Target: (inc. fees) £7,286

https://www.thekitchengardenpeople.org

The Kitchen Garden People is CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) which supplies local people and restaurants with the equivalent of 180 veg boxes a week from a 5 acre plot that we rent from FarmED (a centre for Regenerative Agriculture and Education around Food and Farming). We founded our micro business in 2016 and have grown from small beginnings of 30 boxes a week to where we are now, incorporating not only food production, but community building and education into our ethos and activities.

We currently grow nutrient dense local food following organic principles for our community providing the equivalent of 180 veg boxes per week to local people and local restaurants. We also run 2 volunteer sessions a week to connect communities with each other and to the land their food is grown on, we have run educational sessions for local schools, vulnerable young adults, work experience students, research students and home schooling groups and are in the unique position of being a small holding within a larger centre for Regenerative Agriculture at FarmED meaning that we have the opportunity to engage with and help educate those coming through the farm gate, this was just over 25,000 people in 2023. The course feedback for FarmED as a whole in the same year noted that 93% of customers left feeling inspired, 94% of customers learnt something new, 77% of customers felt better connected to a wider knowledge network and 73% of customers will do something different as a result of spending time at FarmED. We have seen with our own eyes the effect of our volunteer sessions and our CSA course on our attendees with many starting up their own CSA initiatives or growing schemes within a year of having completed the course - this network is not just about growing food but has huge potential for spreading a more globally significant message. What would happen in the UK, where 70% of our land is farmed, if government and larger businesses were able to invest in small scale local farms that promote biodiversity, sequester carbon through diverse cropping and no-dig methods and where each local £ spent = £3.70 of benefit to the local economy? There is such an opportunity here to grow food, improve people's health and that of our land and planet.

Project Owner: The Kitchen Garden People Ltd The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.