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Our Farm: Growing Food, Skills and Opportunity
At its core, the project is community-led. We grow based on what pantry members actually want and will use, shaping production through ongoing feedback and engagement
Our farm project, GlasGrow, is about putting fresh, locally grown food into community settings while creating real opportunities for people to get involved, build skills and gain confidence.
Fresh Produce Supply
Growing, harvesting, washing and packing produce for pantry supply.
Hands On Learning
Practical opportunities to leam in a real working farm environment.
What The Project Does..
Employability Pathways
Structured support led by
TSPN to build confidence and progression.
Community Engagement
Workshops and take-home growing activities for wider involvement.
1. Farm Production and Growing
Crop planning, growing, harvesting, washing. packing and supplying produce, while maintaining the site and safely hosting people in a live working farm environment.
How It Works
2. Employability and Skills Development
Alongside production, TSPN supports recruitment, confidence-building and progression, helping people move towards volunteering, further training and employment in agriculture, horticulture and the wide green economy.
Reducing food miles through local production
A More Local, More Sustainable Food System
Supporting a clear farm to fork approach
Providing a reliable supply of fresh produce into the pantry network
Strengthening local food resilience and
Access to nutritious food
Contributing to long-term local food infrastructure that
communities can
rely on.
Growing workshops
Building confidence and practical skills.
Community Growing and Engagement
Sunflower Seed
Project
Encouraging people to start growing at
home and supporting wellbeing
Different ways to take part
From light-touch engagement to structured employability support.
What We've Achieved So Far
50-bed market garden
5+ tonnes of fresh produce supplied
Community-led crop planning
Growing volunteering, training and employability activity
Learning, Testing and Building a Model
GlasGrow is a pilot project designed to test a different way of connecting local food production with community access.
We continuously test how food is grown, distributed and used in practice, monitor outputs and demand, and refine a model that is practical, sustainable and scalable.
Scaling What Works
Exploring how this approach can be adapted in other areas
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Supporting partners and community groups to develop their own growing projects
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Building a community-led model that can be scaled wichout losing local relevance
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