Community Growing and Horticulture Project, North Leicestershire
Community Growing and Horticulture Project, North Leicestershire
Steve is a trained gardener and landscape designer looking for a plot of land near him to create a community growing and horticulture project. He wants to create a space that will become an asset to his community: providing opportunities to improve wellbeing, help people to experience nature, and teach others to grow.
Over the last number of years, Steve has retrained as a counsellor after becoming more interested in health and wellbeing. He and his family have benefitted hugely from being in nature, and Steve has spotted a gap in their local area for a site based around food growing to help others like him. Steve originally trained as a gardener and landscape designer, and is interested in utilising his skills to establish a new project that serves his community. Now running his own counselling business, he feels confident that he could work part-time, whilst dedicating himself to this new project’s success.
He is looking for 1-2 acres which could be managed for horticultural growing, whilst keeping biodiversity a top priority. He is looking to grow food crops, ornamentals and plants for seed, and imagines that a greenhouse or polytunnel could be highly beneficial. He’s interested in experimenting with a growing system to create a meadow-style growing site, but would be interested in working with the landowner to see what works and what doesn’t, on the land. Should there be additional habitats on the land, like ponds or woodland, Steve would be interested in utilising these in his offering and managing them for the benefit of wildlife.
Importantly, he wants to find a site that would be accessible enough for people to come on through volunteering opportunities and educational workshops, with a focus on growing and wellbeing. This means that the landowner should be excited about the prospect of welcoming people on their land, sharing the benefits that it has to offer, and working in partnership with Steve to manage the necessary infrastructure required.
Steve is a passionate, enthusiastic and skilled landseeker looking for the right plot and the right partnership to give his ideas a chance to grow.
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