Helping residents of Stratford-Upon-Avon grow their own veg

Thanks to funding from Stratford Town Trust, we could offer 100 of our Grow Your Own Veg Boxes to NHS Staff, hospital patients and residents of Stratford-Upon-Avon.

This initiative was designed to give people the opportunity to grow their own veg in their gardens or public locations, in a bid to improve the health and wellbeing of the local community. 

The boxes provide recipients with seeds to grow runner beans, peas, courgette, spinach, kale, chard and edible flowers as well as an information booklet including details about sowing the seeds and harvesting.

We ran a similar ‘Sow and Grow’ project in the summer of 2020 with our Green Therapy Group where each member grew their own veg plot and we held a virtual garden show displaying their results, so it’s rewarding to offer this on a larger scale.

As well as health and wellbeing being at the heart of the project, other benefits include, boosting biodiversity, the building of skills and gardening knowledge and learning to be more environmental and sustainable.