Promoting Our Produce

Promoting our Produce is a branch of the Tamara Landscape Partnership Scheme led by Tamar Grow Local CIC. The project aims to rejuvenate the Tamar Valley’s  market gardening industry by supporting growing and market gardening enterprises and community groups to share knowledge around food production and embracing the physical and mental benefits of time outside. 

We’re inviting volunteers to learn and share knowledge of growing food and promoting biodiversity throughout our three growing sites. 

Our sites include two allotments, one based in St Budeaux in Plymouth, and the other in St Dominick, East Cornwall. These sites utilise traditional allotment techniques, growing a variety of perennial and annual crops. We also care for a half acre market garden in Metherell, East Cornwall. 

The market garden aims to improve local biodiversity through holistic crop production, encapsulating techniques from permaculture, natural low cost farming, and traditional market gardening. 

We are looking to recruit more volunteers to contribute to growing crops for local community food projects and help maintain these vibrant and productive spaces. Experience and knowledge is not required, however an open mind and willingness to embrace nature is a must. 

Skills shared 

• Food production
• Plant and soil fertility 
• Pest and disease management
• Soil science - testing / maintenance
• Biodiversity improvement / general knowledge 
• Propagation
• Pruning - right time of year / practical skills
• Propagation / seed sowing
• Permaculture techniques 
• Low cost farming - making use of what is available on the land
• Fertiliser production
• Food forest - establishment and maintenance