Grow Zones

EarthAbbey Grow Zones is a community project bringing help and inspiration to your garden, wonderful food to your table and adding friendship and purpose to your life. We’re clubbing together to share our skills, tools and produce to eliminate food miles and turn our gardens over to permaculture at whatever level you want – from a redesign of your whole plot to simply helping and sharing with someone else’s once or twice a year.

If you’re interested in starting your own group in your local area, click here for more information, or get explore more via the links to the left.

Each Spring and Autumn we form a group of participants, together with a facilitator. We will arrange an easy schedule of Saturday morning visits to each of the gardens to match what needs doing – creating raised beds, pruning and grafting fruit trees, sharing seeds and seedlings. We will do preparatory jobs in the Spring and harvesting and preserving in the Autumn. In exchange for helping each other, we’ll learn about permaculture and growing, and share in a bumper crop of fresh produce and most importantly have some fun. Together we halve the risk and workload but double the harvest; happiness through pleasure, flow, purpose, friendship and goals.

To read about what participants themsleves have to say about it, read some of the blog posts here.