Our projects

• Directory of Local Food Outlets
• Minimising food waste
• Garden share
• Grow Your Own Vegetables Course
• Allotments Campaign

Other Projects we suppport

• Grow Zones
• Food Share
• FruitMap

Directory of Local Food Outlets

Buying locally grown produce is a good way to reduce food miles and reduce your own and the farmer's fossil fuel consumption as well as supporting the local economy. If you are not sure what is your nearest local source, try our Local Food Outlets page

Minimising food waste

Making the Most of Food is the biggest event we have held on this issue, in association with the Love Food Hate Waste campaign. We also have a page with tips on shopping, storing and cooking food to reduce waste. On food preservation, this year there have been several jam and chutney making sessions - you may have bought some of the product at the Food Garden and Produce fair in September.

Garden share

This scheme enables more people to grow their own food even though allotments are limited. The idea is that people who have spare space in their gardens will share it with others who have enthusiasm but do not have gardens of their own. Garden share details here

Grow Your Own Vegetables Course

This year's course will be run in association with Cambridge Carbon Footprint. Further details here

Allotments Campaign

This is a campaign to increase the number of allotments available to city residents, because all sites are full and waiting lists are getting longer and longer. We are currently waiting to see what the effect will be of the council motion passed in December 2008, and preparing to re-assess demand a year after our first City-wide survey.

Grow Zones

This is a community based project which makes it easy to get started growing more fruit and veg in your own garden. The idea is very simple – you get together with friends and neighbours in teams and use a set of Grow Zones resources to plan the changes you want to make. Then the team visits each garden one at a time to turn those plans into reality. It’s a great way to get you started and to make new friends... like Ground Force - but more fun.

The Cambridge Grow Zones project was launched on 3rd March so it is early days yet. To find out more, for more information, or visit: www.earthabbey.com to view a short video on how Grow Zones has been working in Bristol. Or download the leaflet

Food Share

Groups of gardeners get together to support a local charity by donating their surplus produce. This helps avoid waste food, reduces food miles and benefits your charity more effectively than through a cash donation. For more information visit http://www.foodsharenetwork.org

Fruit Map

There is a google map of free fruit in Cambridge showing where there are trees and shrubs with edible fruit on public land. We started it off with places that we were told about at the Food, Garden and Produce show in September. If you know of any more places please to put them on. Everyone can edit the map so it is up to you.