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Do you want to trial a career in growing? Our FarmStart programme could be for you. 18th Nov DEADLINE

Explore your options with a supported growing programme here

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?

....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...

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.

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.

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”