Growing Communities

A group of us went to Castle Climbing Centre in Hackney to help set up a new community garden on the surrounding land. Growing Communities is an organisation run by local people. The idea was to enable people in the city to obtain their food directly from a sustainably run farm close to London, but this has evolved with increased interest in growing organic vegetables in the city. Now Growing Communities is always looking for new land to set up more community gardens and Castle Climbing Centre is one of them.
When we arrived we were set to work digging up the compacted ground, getting it ready for future use. We were there for hours but it was great fun getting involved in a worthwhile scheme, and surprisingly it didn't seem like hard work.