All volunteer Master Gardeners are offered extra training to help promote local food growing in their communities.
These exciting moments, roughly every quarter, follow each volunteer’s two-day foundation training course designed to get them started. They’re part of their ongoing support from our teams, so we’re currently asking volunteers what they’d like from the training. Themes for these one-day, interactive sessions include:
- A chance to get to know everyone and share stories
- Ideas for spreading food growing message to the wider community and the 10 households they each mentor (based on feedback and tricks from across the programme)
- In-depth horticultural training about requested, local topics
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Thanks for visiting
Philip
Morning Phil,
I can probably find out for myself, but I was wondering if one grows too much of something and tires of eating it all, what can be done to donate the food away from friends who also grow tired of eating the same stuff…?
Are there any organisations who specifically receive such gluts from gardeners or is there a swap thing I could take part in?
Chearz
Nicholas
Nicholas, hello, lovely to hear from you
Knowing what to do with gluts of produce is a tricky one.
Techniques like succession sowing help even out supply, as does harvesting early and of course freezing and pickling! We’ll talk about these a bit more at the upcoming volunteer training dates on the 7 or 15 August if you’re about? Donating to friends is a lovely idea, although has limits as you say! Anything much more formal gets tricky, but local markets/stalls may be interested, even swap-tables at allotment groups, Woman Institute mornings, shelters perhaps. Unfortuantely I’m not aware of any specific organisations that food-share like this, but it’s an interesting idea and will keep an ear out. Will speak to the team to see if they know of anything local.
Thanks again Nicholas. Look forward to seeing you again soon.
Philip