Faith in the Community Allotment Open Day
8
October 2009
/ 2:00PM - 5:00PM.
@ Faith in the Community Allotment
Free
This Autumn marks the end of our first year running this project and we would like to share the experience with you. In that time Elaine, our unpaid volunteer coordinator, has overseen the transformation of a double plot into a project with a vision for promoting healthy organic food and free-range eggs to help feed people across Manchester in partnership with other projects involved with the PHARAOHS BARN initiative.
We grow fruit, vegetables and keep chickens, geese and ducks for eggs to benefit our volunteers and help projects that feed vulnerable people. We are exploring various ways of growing food in the sort of spaces a typical house or flat holder might have available in the inner city or for areas of spare land that communities may wish to take on as community gardens. With our partners Faith Network for Manchester; Faiths 4 Change; Gorton Horticultural Society; Faith Youth Manchester; Manchester Probation and the wider local Eco network that includes Timber Recycling Manchester; Fairfield Composting; Debdale Eco Centre; EST Donkey Centre; Emerge Recycling and others, we can offer tips on hanging basket, window box and other container growing; run workshops on using recycled materials to build raised beds, fox-proof poultry housing, bird boxes and other garden furniture; offer advice on poultry care to schools, residents and housing associations and generally assist you to reuse, recycle and regain the economic and well-being benefits of green exercise and healthy eating.
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