Campaigns

There’s always something going on within the Capital Growth network, from our programme of 40+ training courses each year, to networking opportunities, events, socials and city-wide volunteer open days.

Grow Urban Festival

A celebration of urban food growing in conjunction with Great Big Green Week from the 7 to 15 June 2025.

Growing food for community, climate and nature

A project funded by City Bridge Foundation and the GLA to help protect and create nature-friendly, resilient and inclusive food gardens for...

Good to Grow Week

Every April community gardens across the UK host Good to Grow events to kick off the growing season and build the community growing movement. This...

Growing For Nature

How we are supporting London’s urban farms and gardens to rewild the city.

Growing For Change

The Growing For Change campaign supports London's urban food gardens to create community, climate and nature resilience. Learn more about our...

Urban Harvest

Between 1-29 September, gardens across the Capital Growth network open their doors to volunteers and members of the public for our 15th annual Urban...

Protecting food growing sites

Dive into our resources to learn how to use planning designations and other ways to protect your growing space, created in collaboration with CPRE...

Spotlight gardens

Capital Growth's Spotlight Garden programme shines a light on the role of London’s food growing spaces in building climate and...

Digital Storytelling and Community Food Growing initiative 2021-22

An action research project exploring the benefits of urban food growing by using digital storytelling tools.

Fringe Farming

Presentations and notes from speakers at Peri-Urban Farming conference on 14th February 2020 at St Lukes Community Centre, London.

Grow Well, Feel Well 2019

How food growing benefits health and how you can work with the health service.

Growing Connections

Growing Connections, a guide to age-friendly, inclusive and welcoming community gardens.

Growing Health

Food growing has many benefits for health and wellbeing, which is increasingly being recognised by health professionals and others working towards...

Growing Culture

Growing Culture: Celebrating London’s past and future food growing heritage. The project will focus on London’s food growing...

Community Harvest

Community Harvest is Capital Growth’s initiative in response to the sudden onset of the pandemic to provide community food...

Training

We run a mix of online and in-person events. Have a look at our latest training programme to see what’s currently on or explore the training sessions we’ve run in the recent past.

Training programme

Support our work

Your donation will help communities grow more food in gardens across London.

Donate to Sustain

Capital Growth is a project of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.