Growing Communities

06/06/2026

You can’t possibly stay home when the produce is this good 💚

Everything’s local, seasonal and pesticide-free 😍 (yes, those apricots were grown in Essex!)

Plus organic cheeses that bagged more gold awards this week! 🧀

12/05/2026

This looks great. Fancy a day out in the beautiful Essex countryside this weekend?

AGROFORESTRY OPEN WEEKEND MAY 15th-18th 2026
FREE tours around our organic agroforestry orchard in Lawford CO112LY
Register here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agroforestry-open-weekend-may15th-18th-2026-tickets-1984830789321?aff=oddtdtcreator
More info: https://agroforestryopenweekend.org/peach-and-pippin/
or email [email protected]

25/04/2026

Dagenham Farm is a thriving and thrilling learning space - but our living classroom could be even better if we can make our new education hub happen. It was fun to show our visitors everything that happens there and its potential for the future.

Support our vision: https://growingcommunities.org/support-our-groundbreaking-education-hub

26/03/2026

Once more, with the right name 🙄

🥕Would you be interested in collecting organic veg bags from a collection point at in Hackney Wick?

🥦Put your name down through the link in bio, and if we have enough interest, we’ll do our best to make it happen.

🍎Our subscription fruit and veg scheme brings you delicious, organic, seasonal veg and fruit every week. Select the size of bag of veg or fruit you want, then collect it from a convenient pick-up location near you.

✅Adding your name to the waitlist will take less than 2 minutes and you’re not committing to anything.

https://forms.office.com/e/ZSaYrNiLyH

.hackneytowerhamlets

23/03/2026

We had a great afternoon hosting the Minister of State for Food Security and Rural Affairs, Dame Angela Eagle, and other DEFRA officials at Dagenham Farm in London recently, and showing her the amazing wrok we do feeding Londoners with fresh organic food and healping local schoolchildren learn where their food comes from. 🌱
Together with our partner organisations at the UK Fruit and Vegetable Coalition, we made the case for a ‘Market Garden Support Fund’ in England which would provide organic agroecological market gardens with capital needed to establish and scale-up their enterprises and support the valuable public engagement activities that many market gardens offer.

20/03/2026

We had a great afternoon hosting the Minister of State for Food Security and Rural Affairs, Dame Angle Eagle, and other DEFEA officials at Dagenham Farm in London last week 🌱

🥬 Together with our partner organisations at the UK Fruit and Vegetable Coalition, we made the case for a ‘Market Garden Support Fund’ in England which would provide organic agroecological market gardens with capital needed to establish and scale-up their enterprises and support the valuable public engagement activities that many market gardens offer.

You can read it here:https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/FINAL-MGSF-POLICY-BRIEF.pdf

Photo credit: DEFRA

16/03/2026

We loved showing Minister Eagle and colleagues at Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) what we are achieving here at our Dagenham Farm. In the past year alone, we grew 6 tonnes of organic vegetables and welcomed 1275 visits from schoolchildren and 650 other visitors, while training four new food growers and welcoming many volunteers to experience food growing first hand.

Small market gardens like these that are close to where people live punch above their weight in terms of public engagement, productivity and the wider food system and supply chain.

27/02/2026

🥕Would you be interested in collecting organic veg bags from a collection point at in Hackney Wick?

🥦Put your name down through the link in bio, and if we have enough interest, we’ll do our best to make it happen.

🍎Our subscription fruit and veg scheme brings you delicious, organic, seasonal veg and fruit every week. Select the size of bag of veg or fruit you want, then collect it from a convenient pick-up location near you.

✅Adding your name to the waitlist will take less than 2 minutes and you’re not committing to anything.

https://forms.office.com/e/ZSaYrNiLyH

.hackneytowerhamlets

16/02/2026

Can’t find these in a supermarket…

…but you can find them in Growing Communities veg bags!

Last week’s veg bags featured some beautiful organic squashes grown by Bedlam Farms in Cambridgeshire:
Orange Kabocha Squash — Large No-Potato Bag
Iron Cap Squash — Standard No-Potato Bag

There’s still time to get 10% off your February order with the code NEWYEAR2026.

07/02/2026

💜Loads of luscious organic veggies at our farmers’ market in Stoke Newington today.

💚Ready washed and waiting for you.

🧡We’re open till 2.30pm. See you soon.

💛In front of St Paul’s Church on Stoke Newington
Road N16 7UE