Social Farms & Gardens exists to support,represent and promote managed farms and gardens. Quite simply, our work helps improve people’s lives.
Community farming and gardening - in both urban and isolated rural areas - builds the capacity of local people to enrich and improve their own lives.
Many people assume that city farms and community gardens are simply nice places to visit where plants are grown and animals kept. But that is far from the whole picture.
Not only do these community projects create a patch of welcoming green space to visit, but also offer an amazing array of benefits and opportunities which can include education programmes, play schemes, healthy living initiatives, work and skills training, social enterprises, volunteer opportunities, environmental schemes, horticultural therapy groups, facilities for people with disabilities…the list goes on.