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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. 18th Nov DEADLINE

Explore your options with a supported growing programme here

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

Woodbank Community Food Hub looks to recruit Community Engagement Co-ordinator
Are you the person to help the Woodbank Community Food Hub thrive?
Chef's Rise to the Challenge for Glasgow's Community Food Network
Local Chef’s invited from across Glasgow to have a 'Masterchef' style cook off, supplied with locally sourced vegetables from market gardens and community growing spaces
Food Hub with focus on Community, Good Health & Sustainable Food receives 5 years funding grant
The local community standing around a Thank You sign made out of vegetables

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