Deal Garden Share

Deal Garden Share
This Saturday (5th Feb) we are launching our local Garden Share Scheme - come and find us on the High Street between 10:30-12:30pm and find out more about the scheme.

The Deal Garden Share scheme matches and introduces committed and enthusiastic growers with local garden owners who want to see their gardens being used more productively. In doing so both parties share in the produce grown and enjoy the garden.

We have a checklist of information aimed at both growers and garden owners that aims to describe both parties expectations, responsibilities and 'ground rules'.

This is not commercial undertaking - its about mutual benefit, trust and building the solidarity of our community.

We are also here to help - We hope get a group of Garden Doctors to share their knowledge and experience to mentor both garden owners & growers to get the best out the space available. We hope get some support to get gardens up and going, if that needs a few volunteers for some hard digging!

We want to hear from you if:

• You have a Garden or plot owner which is underused or unmanaged and would like to consider sharing it

• You are a potential Grower who has little or no access to land but wants to grow you own Vegetables and Fruit

• A experienced Gardener who would be willing to share you knowledge by mentoring garden owners/new growers

Contact: gardenshare@dealwithit.org or phone 01304 372673. Forms and posters for Growers and Garden Owners can be found here

You can help be passing the word on about the scheme, putting up a poster in your window or at your community group.

The Scheme is one of Deal With It's Local Food Group ('Delicious Deal') initiatives which aims to foster and support local food production (in all its forms, from extending the provision of cheap local allotments, the formation of Community Gardens & Orchards, Guerillia Gardening, Food Co-ops and local commercial organic food) with the aim of reducing our carbon footprint as individuals and as a community.

As a Group we also support the LandShare scheme which is a good alternative if you are looking for larger pieces of land or sites outside the district http://www.landshare.net/