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Fancy a day out of town getting your hands dirty? Want to learn more about organic food growing? Interested in meeting and supporting people trying to start doing it as a career? 

FarmStarter harvesting pumpkins

....Then join us on a day out with the Land Army! We run regular trips to our two FarmStart sites, on weekdays and weekends. Find a trip that suits you...

Do you want to trial a career in growing? Our FarmStart programme could be for you. Attend the 'Do you want to be a farmer?' Q&A session to find out more

10th Sept

6.30pm

FarmStart Woodbank, Stockport, SK14JS

Our films

Featuring the farmers, co-op members and volunteers we work with, this film explores our work incubating and supporting projects like FarmStart and Manchester Veg People. Plus find out more about our plans to establish a large farm close to Manchester.
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The farm will practise and research a range of sustainable farming techniques, pioneer new... more
Our Woodbank horticulture hub is home to an innovative social prescribing pilot, which we're running in partnership with Stockport GP's Alvanley Family Practice and the Starting Point Community Learning Partnership.
More than Medicine
Hear what some of the participants in our first pilot think of the programme, which involv... more
Duncan from New Food Entrepreneurs interviews our Helen. “It’s more efficient to grow some crops on a field scale, so we need to skill up a new generation of growers to do that. And we need to value them properly so that they can make a livelihood out of it”
New Food Entrepreneurs Interviewing The Kindling Trust
The New Food Entrepreneurs mission is to encourage entrants into sustainable food producti... more

Latest stories

Community Gardening at Woodbank Food Hub
"It’s so nice to have people eat what you grow - you’ve done it!" and other reflections from the community gardeners at Woodbank Food Hub
Tales from the Polytunnels: Dan
Dan harvesting Kale
As we open applications for the FarmStart programme for next year, we catch up with Dan who started his growing journey with us in January
Land Army helps Martha decide on growing career
Martha on working on their land on the Isle of Lewis
Supporting existing growers is not the only purpose of the Land Army, prospective growers can get real world experience of working the land, Martha explains.

The Kindling Trust is a not for profit social enterprise with charitable aims (Company number: 6136029).
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