Growing Local CIC

05/06/2026

A very special thank you to all our truly awesome volunteers for Many who have been coming each and every week since we began at Southside Farm in Oct 2023, and many who have joined us along the journey. Just look what we have achieved!

And thank you to the volunteer team who have helped us at our Kindle Centre Lunch Club, all our Big Eats and Community Lunches - you’re all superstars! 👩‍🍳⭐️

And of course not forgetting our youth volunteers who help us on our holiday workshops 🥰

Hereford

31/05/2026

Our next Community Open Day is next Saturday!

Visit Southside Farm and see where our veg is grown, meet the team, hear about our latest projects and help out with some volunteer tasks (optional). We’ll also be making a simple lunch together with produce from the farm.

Come along between 10 and 1, farm tour around 10.30

29/05/2026

We’ve loved our half term holiday workshops the last two days at the farm 😎🥰

On Wednesday’s family Let’s Explore day we had fun with soil, looking for bugs & beasties🐛, loads of arts & crafts, making seed bombs & play dough creatures, cooking lunch together and so much more 🎨🌱

Yesterday our age 8+ visitors had a special creative day. Writing beautiful poetry and stories with our professional writer Fiona and creating gorgeous clay birds, animals & bugs with Di ✍️👩‍🎨

On both days we had a Wrap-Tastic lunch designing and building a really tasty & healthy wrap, plus fruit & nut yogurt pot puds 🌮🥕🍓

Look out for our summer holiday workshops - bookable from 1st July 🌻

29/05/2026

Save the date - it’s our Summer Fair at Southside Farm on Saturday 11th July & you’re all very WELCOME! 😎

🤩 A fun day of games, crafting, children’s activities, a raffle & tombola 🎁

🥙 Lunch stall, puds, cakes & drinks 🍰

🥕 Veg & plant sale

👩‍🌾 Farm tours - see our veg in the fields & tunnels, hear how our project is rapidly progressing & see the new cook studio take shape

If you haven't been before here's How to Find us - https://growinglocal.org.uk/how-to-find-us/

Please tell your friends & family & SHARE away! 🙏🥰



Hereford Police Your Herefordshire Hereford Voice

28/05/2026

💚THREE DAYS left to sign up to our Veg Box Scheme and use our 4th BOX FREE offer! 🥬🥦 Applies to new customers only.

🌱 Use Code: SPRING26 when signing up

💰 We’re proud to be cheaper than national organic brands. And local.

🌱 We’re a community organisation: 100% of our profits are reinvested back into Hereford to support our education and community projects

🚲 We offer Eco-Friendly Delivery: delivered to your door by (£2.50 delivery charge) or collect for free from one of our 8 hubs across the city and county:

Southside Farmuk
The Kindle Centre
The Brewers Arms

The Steiner Academy
Ewyas Haroldcreative in Fownhope

✨Flexible: Specify your likes/dislikes and pause or skip your delivery whenever you need a veggie break

✅ https://www.growinglocalvegbox.org.uk

20/05/2026

South Wye Safer Neighbourhood Team will be holding a **Coffee with a Cop** on **Friday 5th June **, at **Hinton Community Centre**, from 13;30pm 15:30pm in the cafe.

We’ll be joined by Boxers_Bakes, who will be baking delicious cakes to give away **FREE** to everyone who attends! 🧁

Please come along to:

* Share any concerns
* Ask questions
* Or simply enjoy a cup of tea, cake, and a friendly chat ☕

We look forward to seeing you there! 😊

18/05/2026

There's a few places left on our Thursday creative workshop next week for 8+ year olds!

Spark your imagination with fun writing games & story-making plus nature crafting in the Growing Local Gardens✍️

18/05/2026

As part of the Our Place project with Rural Media last summer we made a cobb pizza oven! Well one dragon and two pizza ovens. We've made a short film about the collaborative project which involved our staff, volunteers and holiday workshop children....and Jon from Eastnor Pottery

Last week we fired up the ovens for their first time of the year with Brookfield school which was really exciting. There's a little work to be done to patch up a few cracks, complete the base with the gorgeous clay tiles and fit some new teeth on our Southside dragon. After that we're hoping to put the ovens to lots of tasty use 🍕🍕🍕

15/05/2026

14/05/2026

Not long until the half term holidays - and we have two action packed workshops to book!

On Wed 27th it’s a family fun day. We’ll be exploring the garden, looking for bugs and beasties, getting hands in soil sowing seeds and planting out plus arts & crafts. A delicious DIY lunch inc.

Thur 28th is for children aged 8+ to get creative. We’ll be writing nature based stories and getting crafty in the garden.

Both workshops are £2.50 a child plus booking fees. Bookable on Eventbrite via our Website - follow the link in bio to the Events page of our website.