Harvest Brighton & Hove is all about growing your own and eating local food. From window boxes to community allotments, there are opportunities for everyone to join in. Harvest has brought together lots of different organisations interested in food who will help you learn to grow your own, make use of surplus produce and eat more tasty local food.

What Harvest aims to achieve:

• Increase the space available to grow food
• Help people have better access to local food
• Increase the skills and confidence of local people in growing their own food
• Increase awareness of the benefits of growing, buying and eating local produce
• Help develop strategies and guidance that support growing food within the city. Other cities and towns will be able to use these documents as a model for their own work.

We are working with our partners to increase the amount of food grown in the city: on windowsills, in back gardens, in allotments, and in community spaces like parks and around housing estates. We’ll be scrumping apples from trees around the city to prevent waste and make delicious juices and chutneys. And we’ll be running a programme to redistribute surplus allotment produce to community food projects like lunch clubs and cookery sessions. There will be plenty of opportunities to get involved: through volunteering at a project, coming on a training course, or attending one of our community food events.

If you want to learn how to grow some of your own food or already do, or if you want to eat more local food, then Harvest is for you!

Take our quiz to get some ideas about how to dig in.