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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...

It's the countryside walk 2019 coming up on Sunday 4th August for everyone and anyone who would like to have a comfortable stroll around the countryside at Abbey Leys Farm, chat to us to learn more about Kindling, or just stick around for the tea and cake at the end!

Register for free 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

Looking for a change of career? Community Food Hub Co-ordinator role could be for you!
Improving well-being for Stockport's Carers through local food
"Coming here has opened up a whole new world for me. I’ve learned about growing fruit and veg and I'm always out in the garden at home now pottering around. It gets me away from everything that’s happening at home.”
Visit your surprisingly local farm on Open Farm Sunday (9th June)
On Sunday 9th June, hundreds of farms will be opening to the public so they can get closer to farming and see for themselves where their food comes from, how it is produced and learn more about farming and the fabulous job it does.

The Kindling Trust is a not for profit social enterprise with charitable aims (Company number: 6136029).
Kindling Trust Ltd - Bridge 5 Mill, 22a Beswick Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 7HR