Food4Families aims to create a network of food growing gardens across Reading where parents and children will learn how to grow their own food together.

Food 4 families will develop family food gardens on allotment sites, school playing fields and communal land. Each garden will have its own dedicated tutor and the project will provide seeds, tools and other equipment to enable them to get growing. However it will local people who will be managing the land in a sustainable way in the long term.

Why grow your own 

Its fun – something you can do with friends and family. Children love to help with planting and harvesting, and will learn so much about where food comes from by doing. 

It tastes good. You are more likely to eat it within a few hours of harvesting when it is very fresh.

You’ll be fitter and healthier from the physical activity of digging, caring for and harvesting your food. Just being outside lifts your spirits.

Its wildlife friendly. By gardening organically without chemical fertilisers and pesticides you will be improving the quality of the local environment for wildlife.

You’ll reduce your carbon footprint. Your food will be in your back garden or local community. No need for trucks, ships or planes.

How you can be involved

Come along as a family to learn more about growing your own vegetables at home or in the projects community plots. Share in the harvest and learn how cook with different fruits and vegetables and how to store them.

Volunteer share your gardening expertise/skills or just enthusiasm, by helping out at a session. The projects will need people to be on a steering group to manage the gardens.

Donate seeds/tools/materials These can be dropped off at RISC‘s World Shop or can be collected if you call Sharon on 0118 958 6692.

 

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