In 2010 we undertook a scoping study looking at the range of different approaches to community growing in Scotland and the geographic scale of activity.

The report Community Growing in Scotland – Towards a Framework for Action:

• summarises the range of different approaches to community growing in Scotland and provides brief illustrative case studies
• maps the organisational landscape of the community growing sector
• identifies the range of guidance and support materials that are available
• highlights a number of barriers and constraints which are currently limiting action on community growing
• proposes a framework for action to support community growing

next steps – visualising our food growing community

The report proposed an outline framework of actions to support and develop community growing. A key action that greenspace scotland has identified is developing a resource pack to help communities to visualise their growing community. We’ll work with urban growing groups to develop a visual plan of a typical Scottish town which illustrates the range of different community growing models and ‘matches’ these to the different places where community growing could happen – illustrating how we can make an ‘ideal growing community’.  This will help people think beyond isolated growing sites and beyond just traditional allotments to develop communities that are growing everywhere – in the flowerbeds outside the office, on the edge of the school playing field, on that bit of derelict ground…

We’re working now to raise funds to support this project. Can you help?