Food Group Links

Here are some organisations with which we have links:

Trumpington community orchard
Cambridge Allotments network
- for everything about allotments in Cambridge, including a list of sites and contacts for each one
- For an interesting historical view, see these aerial photos of Foster Road allotments in 1951 and today
Flavour of the Month is 209radio's food show

See our local food sources page for places to buy locally grown food.

Links for reducing waste food

Love Food Hate Waste has lots of tips.
Lourish is a locally based scheme which allows people to swap their surplus home-grown fruit and veg with others near them. The idea is to promote low food-miles by allowing people to exchange things that they have a glut of so they don't waste their fresh produce and enable others to avoid the supermarket!

Useful links for growing your own:

Garden Organic is a good source of advice on organic gardening including herbs, veg and fruit.
The Royal Horticultural Society also has advice a blog and discussion forum
Free compost made from green bin collections
Or make your own with low cost bins purchased through the cambridge city council
Or make your own bin as well from old wooden palettes. (One of us got free materials from a builders merchant which is a great way to recycle packaging.)
Many plants prefer rainwater to tap water (especially in our hard water area).If you don't have water butt already, you might like to consider repurposing a small black wheelie bin. As of July 31st, "21 small 120L bins are available. The fronts are painted white so they can be recognised as no longer in use for domestic collection. Offer applies only to Cambridge City residents and while stocks last." Contact
Real Seeds is an excellent source of good vegetable seed varieties - no hybrids.
Delfland Nurseries Limited sell organic vegetable plants, and can send them out by post (mail order catalog here; they are relatively local (based in March). Plug plants start from 7p each, and allotment groups can purchase plants by the tray at reduced prices.

and if you don't like to see land going to waste, you might be interested in

Cambridge Guerrilla Gardeners They have been in the local news recently - here is the Cambridge News article (Transition Cambridge does not endorse any illegal activity - please be careful).

Or if that sounds like too much work you might like to try foraging instead

Here is a map of fruit trees and shrubs on public land in Cambridge that you can pick for free
This wild food website has tips, recipes and workshops.

Ways to store and preserve food you have grown

Do let us know if you know of other organisations you think we should list here!