Estimated Price

£1,760

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Summary

Our aim is to grow organic fruit and vegetables for use when catering for events in the Synagogue kitchen for example the weekly Over 60's Lunch Club, Pop Up Diner during the Festival, weekly Shabbat coffee and snack after the service, special festive meals and celebrations. We also look forward to offering fruit and vegetables for community members, friends, visitors and volunteers to take home. As will be removing self seeded trees from the garden, we wish to plant fruit trees in their place.

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Description

By concentrating on growing our own fruit and vegetables we aim to decrease our carbon foot print by sourcing as much of our food locally or at least from the UK contributing to the Council's Net Zero target.  In addition we will offer working in a garden environment to volunteers of all ages who will benefit from working with plants and growing food.  Being a Jewish organisation from a security point of view we will not be able to open our doors to the general passing public unless we have prior notice of who is coming through our gates.  Having said that we are already taking Church and local U3A groups round our Biblical Garden which forms part of the general garden. We have connections with the Salisbury Centre next door and St Mary's Cathedral Eco Group. A fruit orchard is the next step in expanding our food growing operation. Volunteers from the wider community are welcome to work with us in the garden. At the moment we a limited amount of edible produce eg leeks, onions, coriander, broad beans as well as non edible plants in the Biblical Garden eg roses, poppies, lily of the Valley. 

We would like to expand our growing vegetable space to accommodate a waist high trug to allow accessibility for older gardeners and cooks who find bending difficult. In anticipation of more volunteer gardeners we need more gardening tools and shed to house the equipment.