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Green Futures Grimsby

Date started: 
4 February 2009
Public Launch date: 
8 June 2009
Geographic region : 
Yorkshire and the Humber
Geographic region : 
England
Geographic region : 
United Kingdom
Last updated: Friday, 2 March 2012
Related Transition Stage: 
Deepening

Website

http://www.greenfuturesgrimsby.co.uk/

Images

Clearing derelict polytunnel
picture of the site in 2009
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Project Aim

Welcome to the Green Futures project site, we are a community business working with people of all ages in the Greater Grimsby area to create a sustainable, green future for us all.

Together we are able to grow food for the local community, improve our environment, create new jobs, and enhance everyone’s quality of life. We can transform gardens, under-used land, and public green-spaces into a productive food resource which benefits the whole community and the local economy.

We believe in cultivating more than just plants! We want to grow trust, creativity, honesty, respect and mutual support as we build on the foundations of the past to create an exciting future.

Further details

Hey take a look at our flickr photostream here http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenfutures/

We have just created a Facebook fan page take a look at our work here http://www.facebook.com/greenfutures

Follow our work on twitter @GreenFuturesGY

The Vanson centre was formerly a local authority plant nursery which has fallen into disrepair. We are in the process of transforming it into a centre for sustainability which will serve to educate and inspire people of all ages. We will use the site to demonstrate the harmony between quality of life and care for our environment.

The Vanson centre will also be home to ornamental gardens, a traditional kitchen garden, an orchard, covered growing spaces, wood workshop and tool library for the community. We’ve already begun the process of redeveloping the dilapidated growing tunnels and have brought two back into production of food crops which we will sell locally.

As we redevelop the currently semi derelict site we will be incorporating and demonstrating a variety of sustainable and environmentally friendly technologies, from permaculture design, to renewable energy generation and storage.

We’re keen to work with skills and technologies both ancient and modern to make the Vanson centre an inspiring centre of excellence for a sustainable future and one that our community will grow to love as much as we do.

 

Inspiration

We are living in an age where technology, media and global commerce tell us we can have anything we want whenever we want it, our oil driven economy burning rapidly depleting stores of irreplaceable ancient sunlight makes this possible. We are hoping that by acting in our small way locally through our non profit community business model that we can provide an environment where we can reconnect our local community with what it means to cultivate food in a sustainable manner and at the same retain and build local horticultural skills and supporting the local economy.

Contacts

Primary point of contact: 
Neil Cartwright
Themes: 
Arts & Crafts
Themes: 
Education
Themes: 
Food
Themes: 
Business & Economics
Themes: 
Health

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