Welcome to the ‘Tatworth Growing Together’ web site. We hope you find it interesting and instructive and possibly inspirational! This is a unique ‘Transition’ Project in the UK. Tatworth people are famous!
[Hover] your mouse over the buttons to see where you can go.
See [Latest News] for what has happened most recently.
See [How to Find Us] if you want maps so you can visit the Project.
On Monday 9th November Hattie Winter from the Blackdown Hills “Making it Local Fund” visited the Project to see how the fund can help and advise.
On 29th October we were awarded our first ever big Grant - £5000 for 1st Prize. See Latest News for links to see Lord Cameron's letter to Heather Bryant and the South Somerset Partnership website's announcement of the Award.
We have received a quote for a 20' x 16' greenhouse.
On Saturday 10th October our most 
senior Volunteer came to see the Project out of interest and wielded a mattock as though she has bee doing it for years ! In fact she has !
On Sunday 27th September Tatworth Growing Together was kindly invited to put a Harvest exhibit in the Church for the Harvest Service.
Liz and Sandra have come up with an idea to help those Residents who can't get to our two Shops to obtain our fresh veg. Liz will ask Residents she knows if they would like her to drop in on them to
take orders for our dirt cheap chemical-free food. Sandra had bought some curly kale - very popular these days - for Pettia and John, Samuel and Joseph. On the way she met an old friend who bought it from her on the spot. She went back to the Project to replace Pettia's order! Please let us know if you can't access the two shops - see [Contact Us] for phone numbers.
A local gentleman was waiting at Jenny's newspaper shop for half an hour because Jenny had told him we were on the way to deliver fresh large cabbages. We had to go back and Liz brought two more to Jenny!
Yesterday Tuesday 28th July, five volunteers finally dug out the last potato and so now the potato patch is bare!
We have sold 60 kilos of spuds at the two shops and have 12 big bags in store in the dark in the portacabin.
360 kilos from the 'inaugural' crop planted on 10th and 13th April!
More to follow ..... check [Latest News] !
There are many pictures of the people involved in running the project. The
idea will be to show how they progress, how they enjoy themselves, how committed and enthusiastic they are - and how overnight a new patch of vegetable shoots appears. There's always quite childlike excitement when suddenly we see the product of our hard labours! And a history of how we did it.
As at today we reckon that 60% of our 1/3rd acre site is planted with crops and that is from Good Friday - a mere 93 days!
Look at [Mission Statement] to see the aims of the project spelled out .....
See [Conception & Birth of the
Project] to see the background history of how the project came about: a very generous Landowner, Somerset County Council and the Parish Council - who are both very committed to the project - and how they all fit into the picture .....
See [Its Uniqueness and Success] as to why this Project is different from others .....
As the project develops many
problems will no doubt arise and solutions will need to be found. We'll put discussions of these onto the website as they arise, hopefully to help others who want to start up similar schemes and short-circuit their own experiences to minimise labour - and also hopefully ..... for advice from them!
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10th to 18th April, 2009"
30th January 2009
Tatworth and Forton Parish Council adopted ‘transition status’ in September 2008 and immediately made this Community Crop Production Project one of it's ambitions.
Andrew Turpin (a Parish and District Councillor) was the person who conceived the idea of this Project, having worked exhaustively over the years on a number of ‘transition objectives’. The project is backed by the enthusiasm of a large and active group of volunteers in the local community. Financial support has been provided by both the County and District Councils as well as the Parish Council.
If you would like to talk to Andrew on more of the background please feel free to contact him on .....
01460 220691
Website designed, implemented and maintained by David Porter - last updated 10th November 2009. Photography also by me except for the 30th January 2009 photos by Jon Hodgson. If you have any criticisms, queries or suggestions about the website please contact me on .....
01460 238588
07977 228161
