Click on the pins to find out more about food growing spaces near you!
Fill in our here to add a space to the map. Please share as much info as possible (with the relevant permissions). Thanks for helping us increase the visibility of Community Led Food Growing across the District! To see where allotments are located across the district see our allotments map on the allotments page!
Growing tips and advice for Bradford growers
We share a monthly growing sheet with a focus on a particular vegetable as well as our monthly #LoveYourVeg social media campaign where we encourage people to share the veg they love to grow or eat. We ask people to share a photo or recipe and why they love the veg they are sharing.
Will you join us by sharing our growing tips or your favourite veg?
“Permaculture is a revolution disguised as organic gardening”, according to Bill Mollison (RIP)!
Want to find out more about permaculture.
Read an interview with him here where his is quoted
A garden is a nursery for nurturing connection, the soil for cultivation of practical reverence. And its power goes far beyond the garden gate—once you develop a relationship with a little patch of earth, it becomes a seed itself. Something essential happens in a vegetable garden. It’s a place where if you can’t say “I love you” out loud, you can say it in seeds. And the land will reciprocate, in beans.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Author of Braiding Sweetgrass
Click on the pins to find out more about food growing spaces near you!
Fill in our here to add a space to the map. Please share as much info as possible (with the relevant permissions). Thanks for helping us increase the visibility of Community Led Food Growing across the District! To see where allotments are located across the district see our allotments map on the allotments page!
See more info and updates info below the map! We liaise with allotment growers and the allotments office in simple ways to see how we can support those who want to access allotments and the allotments office in their huge endeavour to get more plots under cultivation and let out. We do this as part of our work with Bradford Council’s Public Health project to promote Community Led Food Growing across the city. Read more below!
Bradford council manages an allotment service across the city. If you are interested in starting or continuing to grow in Bradford then one option is to apply to the council for an allotment. Some areas also have allotments not run by the council’s allotment service, such as parish councils, and some are even run independently by the allotmenteers themselves, such as the site at Northcliffe in Shipley.
Grow Bradford have created a map of where allotments are based across the city. See below! If you know of sites that are not yet listed please let us know via the contact tab .
Click here to see a list of council run allotment sites
Allotments updates and opportunities!
Advice on setting up and Organic Allotment plot and general tips from Garden Organic
4 Ways to boost biodiversity on your plot from Garden Organic
Wildlife friendly gardening on your allotment plot!
Here’s a video of the fabulous growers from Northcliffe Allotment Society and the #ShareYourSpare scheme they are promoting
If you’d like to share from your allotment as an individual or project please tag us in your updates @growbradford #growbradford
Let’s get the city growing!
At the moment the waiting list for allotments is closed, rents have increased by 50% and some concessionary rents have been removed – but there is also good news!
The allotments office has some funds via Public Health and the Community Infrastructure Levy to bring ‘unusable’ allotments back into use through clearing them – the Public Health fund will bring 30 plots back into use! The clearing process has gone out to tender – hopefully work will start soon.
Also good news is that the allotments office have listened to some great ideas coming from current plot holders and have said ‘ Where plots require cutting back but not heavy clearance, we have been contacting people on the list to see if they would be prepared to take a plot and there would be no charge until 31st March 2024. We have been undertaking this for the last 6 weeks. In the last 4-5 weeks we have offered over 40 plots to people on the waiting list,’
Public Health added ‘Most of their work is dependent on funding, which is rather short at the moment so we’re working with them on trying to be as creative as possible. So any assistance you can provide from that perspective will be duly appreciated.’
If YOU have ideas on creating different ways of getting the plots cleared and let – please share that with Grow Bradford via our ‘contact’ page.
