Good to Grow Week
Good to Grow week was our festival of urban food growing where every April community gardens, city farms, allotmenteers and schools all over London celebrate the new growing season.
Multi Level wooden planter boxes filled with vegetables and flowers. . Credit: Petra Richll
The aim of this festival was simple - raise the profile of our members food growing spaces, so more people can find their local food growing project, learn to grow their own food and meet their neighbours.
Each April over 80 members would host over 100 events for aspiring plant parents, homestead dreamers and the critter curious, helping more Londoners to discover community gardens and get involved. From plant sales, bug hunts and mass plant outs, to still life drawing, our network provided to much to explore. It was a collective demonstration of just how many people are growing food, building community and cultivating kindness in unexpected places.
The history
The Big Dig Day started as an event run by Capital Growth in 2012 to engage volunteers in local food growing projects. Funding was also received to roll this out across the UK, recruiting 7,500 new volunteers to take part in community gardening. These local networks continue to recruit and engage volunteers all over Britain.
Since the Big Dig was first launched in 2012, a growing number of gardens have been adopting a 'no dig' approach to food growing and to reflect that we surveyed our members to find a new name that was more inclusive and representative of our network. After a great debate and lots of ideas, Good to Grow was voted in as the overwhelming favourite and we changed the name in 2022.
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Capital Growth is a project of Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.
