Get chatting to other gardeners, learn about growing and share your experiences.
Building the raised beds
Dreaming a new dreamWe are living in a time where UK food travels a staggering 30 billion kilometres each year, where the main supermarket choices are carrots from Spain, apples from Costa Rica and cellophane packaged as a norm and dripping with carbon miles. It is time for us to dream a new dream and find an alternative that can feed and keep both ourselves and our communities healthy and happy at the same time.
Brighton is an inspiring place when it comes to dreaming differently and small seeds are sown daily, the Vegetable Education Garden (VEG) is one small seed starting to bloom amongst the weeds. The VEG at the Hanover community centre has been blooming for 5 years now. We are a community group that welcomes everyone to come along to learn about growing and benefit from a welcoming community. In our last year we have run weekly work days in rain, sun and snow and offered a range of free workshops and seed swaps. |
The importance of growing your own food and sustainabilityWorking the soil and growing vegetables automatically connects us to the process of food production. It helps us understand how much energy and time it takes to make the precious food we eat.
Engaging with this process connects us to a fundamental process that is so often overlooked. This perspective can help us understand the energetic and environmental cost of the food we eat and engender a sympathetic relationship towards our planet and inspire us towards living more sustainably for the wellbeing of ourselves and our earth and its ecosystems that support us. |
Our small community education garden, based at the Hanover Centre
We come together for weekly work days to learn how to grow things by doing it together and sharing in each others' skills. Our aim is to promote sustainability whilst building nourishing friendships over the vegetable patches
The space is an ideal example of what can be done in a small urban garden, come to be inspired.
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Work days: Thursdays 2pm-4pm, at the Hanover Centre
We welcome everyone, come along if you are interested in growing your own food or are just looking for a friendly community to share some time with. You can bring new ideas and get as involved as you like - we always welcome new faces to our work days and are happy for people to take up a more involved role in organising and being a core volunteer.
We provide tea and some biscuits but feel free to bring along snacks to share.
We welcome everyone, come along if you are interested in growing your own food or are just looking for a friendly community to share some time with. You can bring new ideas and get as involved as you like - we always welcome new faces to our work days and are happy for people to take up a more involved role in organising and being a core volunteer.
We provide tea and some biscuits but feel free to bring along snacks to share.
The Harvest
Our VEG will go to volunteers that participate on work days and towards future free community educational events that we will run for the public to raise awareness about sustainability, growing and food related issues.
Our VEG will go to volunteers that participate on work days and towards future free community educational events that we will run for the public to raise awareness about sustainability, growing and food related issues.
