Food and Drink
Food and Drink
We have a wonderful community garden at the Heritage Hub which as part of the project we are starting to cultivate to grow food. Over the course of the two year this project has thrived. The project has recently funded five more veg trugs to increase their capacity to grow more food for the city as well as extending the undercover outdoor learning area so the social and therapeutic horticulture can expand to facilitate an increasingly diverse range of people accessing the garden to learn and grow together.
Grow with Wiggly at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub
Project Grow are teaming up with Wiggly Charity in a bid to grow 50% of the vegetables used in Wiggly’s Gloucester cookery courses and shared with the community of Kingsholm by utilising the space with the existing community garden at the Heritage Hub. We are working to prove the case for a more sustainable community food system growing chemical-free plants and produce with low food miles (less than 0.5miles from Hub to kitchen) and all with zero packaging and
waste.
About Project Grow:
Project Grow is a social enterprise plant nursery + growing space that provides plants and produce to community organisations that feed their local communities, to food banks, food pantries and other food projects. We believe growing food for self and others is an act of rebellion. We grow seasonal plants and produce without the use of herbicides, pesticides, and any other chemicals. We only use peat-free soil, grow in raised and no-dig beds and ensure we follow mother nature’s seasonal cycle.
About Wiggly:
Wiggly Charity has a mission to empower people of all ages and abilities through food. Wiggly delivers cookery courses in the community, supporting vulnerable people to make budget-friendly, healthy meals. Their recipes are adapted to consider the economic, social, and domestic circumstances of the participants.
Picture: A collaboration event where Wiggly charity gave a cookery demonstration based on an old soup recipe from the Archives using produce grown by Project Grow in our community garden.
Picture: The same three partners also collaborated at the 2025 Cheltenham Science Festival where over 4,000 children became ‘veg detectives’ in our outdoor installation.
Picture: Project Officer Hannah with some of the fruits (and vegetables) of her labours in the community garden.
Picture: In 2025, honey harvested from the Heritage Hub bees won first prize (in the blind taste test) from the Gloucestershire Beekeepers Association. Well done to our volunteer beekeepers, one of whom was the Green Pledge Project archivist!
If you would like to volunteer to help out with this ongoing project, please check out our volunteer programme