What are community food growing hubs?
The hubs support Luton residents to learn how to grow, harvest and cook with fresh produce. Now Groundwork is offering a variety of activities including low-cost nutritious meal planning and cooking on a budget, to help residents improve their diets and nutrition. The food grown at the hubs is used to support the delivery of these programmes. (This is the ‘Fork to Fork’ model.)
Fresh produce grown in the hubs is redistributed within the local community and used to enrich local food bank and crisis and destitution services and within local holiday hunger services, where children from low-income families will have the opportunity to grow, cook and eat fresh food as a part of structured holiday programmes.
Our hubs provide the opportunity to learn new skills, meet new people and to make a contribution to supporting a healthier community across Luton.
Where are the hubs?
Memorial Park Hub – Memorial Park, West Hill Road LU1 3LZ
Strathmore Hub – Methodist Church, Strathmore Avenue LU1 3NZ
Farley Food Growing Hub – Rotheram Avenue, Farley Hill LU1 5PP
Dunstable South Children’s Centre – Oakwood Avenue, Dunstable LU5 4AS – new hub
Marsh Farm Futures – coming in Spring 2021