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Harvest update
What's on
April growing tips
Project support & funding
Harvest update: A new work placement scheme for unemployed people interested in working in the community food sector is now open to applications! The work placement involves spending four weeks with the Whitehawk Community Food Project learning about working on a community growing project and two weeks in the Food Partnership office. Read more about the work placements or ring the Food Partnership on 01273 431700.
Are you new to gardening and want some tips to help get you started? Check out our new Get Growing Starter pack!
Have you seen the new Harvest demonstration garden in Preston Park? If you've not made it down in person, have a look at the pictures on our Facebook site.
Easter sale on Harvest training courses! Get £5 off the regular price when you book. Just enter discount code JSDSCA in the booking form online. Courses can be found at www.harvest-bh.org.uk/events. Some upcoming Harvest courses include:
17 April: Growing in a Small Space
18 April: Organic Gardening for Beginners
24 April: Growing on a New Plot
What’s on: There’s loads on, as usual, including:
- Seedbomb workshop: 1 April – the last one! 2-4pm, Cornerstone Community Centre, Church Road, Hove. To book ring 01273 431700. £2.
- Screening of Food Inc: 4 April, 11:00am, Duke of York Cinema. A screening of Robert Kenner’s most recent film, which is all about the devastating effects today’s globalised, industrialised food system has on animals, the environment, and the people working so hard to bring food to our tables. Not to be missed. Post screening discussion organised by Slow Food Brighton & Lewes to follow.
- Grow Your Own Food: 11 April, 1-4pm, Lewes Road Community Garden. A beginner’s guide to growing your own, however much or little space you have. Plant up some pots to take home, get advice on growing, and make a seed bomb. Tea & cake too!
- Food Waste meeting: 26 April. Are you interested in reducing food waste in Brighton & Hove? If you’d like to come along to a meeting to discuss this please call the Food Partnership on 01273 431700.
- Fringe City: 1 May, 1-5pm, New Road Brighton. Lots of Fringe fun, with the Food Partnership running demonstrations on cooking with leftovers and reducing food waste.
- Big Sussex Market: 15-16 May, New Road, Brighton.
- Spring Food Fair: 22-23 May, Hove Lawns.
- Join the One Pot Pledge! This is a new campaign by Garden Organic to get 30,000 people who’ve never grown anything to give it a go. Read more on the campaign website.
April growing tips: Spring is off to a slow start this year but there’s still loads to do, whether you’re growing in a windowbox, patio, garden or allotment. Read more...
Funding & project support:
Harvest project support: The Harvest Team is here to support new and existing growing projects through advice, project mentoring, access to land and more. Read about how we can help.
Novas Scarman, Can Do Health: next deadline 6 May. Funding up to £1,500 for community groups working on projects that improve health within their communities. Read more...
Happy Spring (wish it would just warm up a bit),
The Harvest Team
To find out more and keep in touch with Harvest, you can find us at www.harvest-bh.org.uk or become a fan of Harvest on Facebook.
Harvest is a city-wide project, delivered by a wide range of partners and led by Brighton & Hove Food Partnership and Food Matters. The Food Partnership is a membership organisation, and membership is free to anyone who lives or works in Brighton & Hove. For benefits of membership and to join go to: www.bhfood.org.uk
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