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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...

Open Farm Sunday is the 9th of June and you are all invited to Woodbank Community Food Hub! Come for a tour of the site, meet our enthusiastic FarmStart trainees and learn about Stockfree organic growing.

Woodbank Community Food Hub on the last open day

It's also an opportunity to get an update on our pioneering Kindling Farm and to get glimpse into what it will look like. More details 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

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.
In homage to and celebration of the life of Martin Wolfe
Martin Wolfe
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the death of the incredible Martin Wolfe, pioneer and father of agroforestry in the UK
Do you have a taste for being a food hub's new cooking session leader?
Cookery Session Leader recruitment at Woodbank Community Food Hub
Woodbank Community Food Hub in Stockport is looking for an exceptional person to deliver cookery sessions

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