Goodery Garden Community Project

Aim

To make our wonderful market garden in Norfolk ready to welcome our community, and to host open days and regular learning sessions

In 2022, we set up the Goodery Garden, a two acre, Organic market garden in Bintree, Norfolk.

We wanted to not only cultivate more local Organic produce, and feed more of Norfolk with healthy, good food; we wanted to facilitate the growth and training of the next generation of Organic growers here in East Anglia.

A year and a bit on and our Head Grower Jen has done an amazing job of  transforming the bare land to a verdant and productive garden. 

However, we believe the Garden can be even more than a productive and sustainable market garden, that it can be a place:

- where growers can learn skills and share knowledge

- where the local community can experience sustainable food growing

- where communities are reconnected to their source of food and to the soil

To achieve this we need to get the garden ready for the public, create teaching spaces, and create a fund for our growers to dedicate time to teaching and welcoming the community.

We need to spend:

£1,740 on Greenhouse for teaching. This would be used for seed sowing, potting on etc. £420 on Greenhouse installation £4340 on a covered teaching space (polytunnel). This would mean teaching could go on throughout the year. It would be used for teaching general growing techniques. £2000 on a years worth of weekly community teaching time for grower. £500 on participant tools. £1000 on making the market garden hospitable and community ready, including a better toilet space, food area etc.

If you exceed your target, what will your stretch target be?

£15,000

How will you spend any funds raised in your stretch target?

More teaching time for growers: £1000 

Mini tractor for cultivating more of our land: £2000

Bigger polytunnel space: £1000 

Trees, shrubs, flowers and planting for food forest and agroforestry: £500

Accessibility improvement (gates and entrances, pathways etc.): £500

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This project successfully funded on 24th August 2023