You can help us build the food system we need. One that nourishes us, our neighbours and our planet!
45% of our city is green space. That’s gardens, allotments, parks, verges etc. Much of this land is fertile and if we’d use all of it to grow food, we’d be able to feed everyone in the city 4 times over!
But this isn’t about creating farmland. This is about creating beautiful and bountiful food forests in our parks, gardens and public spaces. We want to grow a city that breathes.
Because most of our space today is ‘silent’ – paved gardens and public space that is mown grass that supports almost no life. But imagine if that 45% of our city was a living, breathing network. Imagine your garden, your school field, or your local park as a sanctuary where the soil is rich with worms, the air is thick with pollinators, and the ground beneath your feet is helping to prevent floods.
Join our revolution! Your garden can be a beautiful sanctuary and wildlife corridor. Your school can be a green oasis where children learn to connect with nature and food in a healthy way. Your pub, mosque or church grounds can be converted to a thriving community garden where your community can recharge and connect.
How you can help
If you want to join our growing revolution, please sign up to join the revolution!
We’ll keep you posted on how our campaign develops and opportunities for you to get involved.
There are also a bunch of ways for you to contribute now:
Grow
We’re already busy raising nature friendly seedlings to share out all over the city this year.
Have a look in our shop for our growing kits, which will provide you with seasonal nature friendly food and companion plants for your space.
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Growing Food
Easy Food Growing Kit
Available to collect from late April, each kit contains a carefully selected mix of plants that support one another as they grow, combining food plants that are enjoyable to cook and eat with companion plants that bring colour and life to the garden.
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Growing Food
Seasonal Food Growing Quarterly Subscription
With the Seasonal Subscription, you’ll receive a carefully selected mix of plants every season, so you can enjoy fresh, home-grown vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers all year round.
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Growing Food
Seasonal Food Growing – Full Year Kit
With the Seasonal Subscription, you’ll receive a carefully selected mix of plants every season, so you can enjoy fresh, home-grown vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers all year round.
Learn
If you want to learn more about growing food, please have a look at our programme of workshops.
You can also sign up to volunteer and have an opportunity to work with and learn from a whole team of growers every week!
Nourish
If you’re in a position to support financially, please consider a one off or regular donation. Our primary focus right now is to get every school in the city to grow food. It only takes £250 for us to support a school with a basic package for a year and if you’re able to contribute towards that we can match that to schools who can’t afford this at the moment but are keen to work with us.
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Gifts & Experiences , Support our work
One-off donation
Support Food Works with a one-off donation
Every £10.00 donated allows us to save 15kg of food from going to waste, enough to feed a person for a week.
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Gifts & Experiences , Subscriptions
Become a supporter
Become a Food Works supporter with a minimum monthly contribution of £1
For a minimum contribution of £1 every month, you’ll get a monthly email that shares stories, interviews and special events that take you right to the heart of Food Works life, work and people to see the better food system we are building for Sheffield. …
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Gifts & Experiences , Support our work
Sponsor a school
For just £250 we can support a local school to grow food with pupils and parents.
From school fields to paved yards, every inch of Sheffield has the potential to nourish us. We’re thrilled to be on this journey with you to make our city a leader in food growing.
We can’t wait to see what we can grow together!
