Field to fork is a community development program being run by the Upper Bann Vineyard centre to bring people together as a 'community'. Field to fork will encourage and empower people to grow their own fruit and vegetables and also learn about related topics along the way. These topics will include a wide variety of current affairs such as self-sustainability, green energies, organic growing methods amongst many others.
The first and current project that we are embarking on is the veggie box program. This will bring a number of people from the local community in Portadown to partake in a series of lessons which will teach parents and children the benefits of growing their own produce. They will be provided with the resources to produce their own 3ft by 1ft wooden vegetable box, which will grow a variety of different vegetables to their liking. Each step of the process will be covered from seed planting through to harvest and storage.
I have already started to plant some seeds so that we can hit the ground running. I will post pictures of the different stages along with anything else i think may be relevant and interesting reading for anyone thinking of replicating what we are doing.
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