The Cycle of the Seed pillar aims to get your community growing more of your own food and become more aware of the many benefits of food growing, including bolstering food security, improving soil health, encouraging biodiversity, enhancing health and wellbeing, building stronger communities, and helping to reconnect us with the natural world around us.

Food security is a significant issue that local growing has the potential to address. Across the UK approximately 5.4m UK residents considered themselves as food insecure in 2020. Understanding how to grow our own food, free from chemicals, can help to alleviate food insecurity and give communities access to locally grown, fresh, nutritious, organic fruit and veg.

Food growing is a fantastic way to bring communities together and a great focal point for social gatherings, celebrating diverse cultures through food festivals, community picnics and farmers’ markets. Put simply, most of us love food, and sharing it with others is even better.

The Cycle of the Seed pillar will help your community:

• Become more food secure by growing some of your own produce
• Raise awareness of food security issues
• Bring people together around a shared demonstration space.
• Save money by growing and sharing your own produce
• Improve health & wellbeing
• Reconnect to natural systems and cycles by using organic methods

Let’s get everyone growing the organic way to cultivate a greener, healthier, more sustainable world.