Coast and Vale Community Action and GROW Scarborough are urging residents to discover the joys of growing their own food as part of Great Big Green Week.
The organiser of a project that grows and donates food to the Scarborough community says he wants to use growing to bring people together this Great Big Green Week.
Coast and Vale Community Action (CaVCA) and GROW Scarborough have been growing vegetables with the help of volunteers in their community garden at The Street.
From the 6th to the 14th of June, David Stone from Coast and Vale Community Action and Darren Mancrief from GROW Scarborough are asking locals to visit a community garden, hoping they will leave wanting to grow food in their own gardens.
Darren, founder of GROW Scarborough, said he was inspired during lockdown to bring a sense of community back to the area:
Expanding on how the harvest is distributed, he added:
"Everything we grow here, every harvest goes up to another local project called Scarborough Community Fridge. For us, we wanted to share the food with the community, that's our ultimate goal. That enables us to get the food out to the people that need it because they're using the fridge, really quickly and really effectively. So, we harvest on a Thursday. They'll come and collect and it's given out on a Saturday morning less than half a mile away from where it's grown."
Darren said community gardens have flourished in recent years, adding that it was good to see people getting involved and that even small events that give communities a chance to get involved with their local environment can have a snowball effect on encouraging people to make changes to their lives.
David Stone, from Coast and Vale Community Action, has been working to investigate the barriers to growing food in Scarborough, from shaded gardens to lack of space, as part of the Good to Grow project funded by the Yorkshire Policy Innovation Partnership.
His research has found that people in Scarborough worry about space, lack of time, and lack of confidence, but he is hoping he can mitigate these barriers as Good to Grow continues.
David said he gets joy out of growing food in his allotments, and wants people to experience the same joy when growing food of their own.
Great Big Green Week will see up to two million people across the United Kingdom taking action for the climate in their local community. This year, Coast and Vale Community Action and GROW Scarborough want to encourage people and their gardens to flourish.
David added:
"For Great Big Green Week, we're saying to the people of Scarborough: get growing! We want more and more people to know the pleasures of growing your own food.
"We want you to know it doesn't have to be difficult, it can be fun, the food tastes great and it's a social activity and there are lots and lots of different community food growing projects in and around Scarborough that you can get involved in."
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