WILDLINGS 🌱 🌱 has been developed by our very own Charlene Jones in collaboration with local forest and beach school leader Rachel Stevens (Holdfast Beach School). It is a forest school-inspired experience for children, a bespoke, child-led nature exploration group in the Locavore Community Garden. It will include lots of outdoor activities, crafting, learning and having fun. …
For LGBTQIA History Month, Custom & Folkestone Pride are giving away free grow kits for LGBTQIA folk! Each kit contains a variety of seeds & everything you need to get them started 🌱All you need is window light & love ❤️🌈🌈🌈 Made by Bean, who is a director of Folkestone Pride as well as being …
We are also thrilled to have received crucial funding from KENT RELIANCE PROVIDENT SOCIETY LIMITED Community Fund through Kent Community Foundation (KCF) – UK and from Persimmon Homes to fund the intergenerational outreach element of the Locavore Growing Project. We are working with Folkestone residential care home Brampton Lodge to create a working food growing space in their back garden. With …
Thanks to support from UnLtd (The Social Enterprise Support Fund) and The National Lottery Community Fund , the Locavore Garden is now up and running. The garden, based at Martello Primary in Folkestone, is the hub space of Custom Food Lab’s Locavore Growing Project. We work closely with the school and are gradually welcome more and more members of …
Our festive YULETIDE Locavore Growing Box is now available to pre-order. Deliveries will begin from 15th December, numbers are limited so get your order in now! As always, for every box sold, we will donate one to a Folkestone family. We’ve made a special bumper box with extra activities for the festive season, with a …
Lockdown is hard and the fact that it’s November really doesn’t help, so we decided to push ahead with an idea we’ve had ruminating for a while – the Locavore Growing Box. The Box encompasses the whole food growing cycle, with seeds to nurture on a window sill, compost, information about seasonal wild-growing food (including …
On 13th October, we launched the Locavore Growing Project. We couldn’t invite everyone we wanted to be there because we wouldn’t have been able to confidently manage COVID precautions, so we’re sharing it retrospectively with you now! At the Locavore Garden, we were joined by local Green Party councillor Georgina Treloar, who is so supportive …
Custom Food Lab’s Locavore Growing Project will officially launch on 13th October 2020. Due to COVID restrictions, we can’t throw the big party we’d like to, but we will be taking our first volunteer working group into Brampton Lodge Residential Care Home as part of our intergenerational food growing project and will have a simultaneous …
Job Description: Custom Food Lab is looking for a Community Food Grower to join our Locavore Growing Project. Working in our Locavore Community Garden at Martello Primary School, where we are building a community garden from scratch, focussing on food growing. We practice No-Dig, Wildlife friendly, Permaculture growing methods. And our motto is ‘Don’t kill …
The news is getting out there about the Locavore Growing Project