Places
This aims to be a comprehensive list of food growing in the West Midlands, excluding what’s being grown on in people’s back gardens. (There’s also info about organisations and projects elsewhere here.)
For starters, there are
- ~ 8000 allotments on over 150 sites
- several community orchards (see also below)
plus the following (listed in alphabetical order):
- Andrew’s Plants
- Balsall Heath City Farm
- Becketts Farm
- Birmingham Botanical Gardens
- Bishop Latimer Community Garden
- Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens
- Cotteridge Community Orchard
- Edgbaston Guinea Gardens
- Edible Eastside
- Forest Schools Birmingham
- Get Growing Black Country and Birmingham (was Sandwell Food Network)
- Goscote Greenacres Community Garden
- Grow Soho Community Garden at City Hospital
- Hazelwell Park Community Orchard
- Harborne Community Orchard
- Highbury Orchard Community
- Mallard Close Community Orchard in Acocks Green
- Martineau Gardens
- Mobile Garden, the
- Moorpool Regeneration
- Moreton School Community Garden at Sandy Lane Allotments, Bushbury
- Mount Pleasant School Farm
- North Summerfield Residents Association (includes Coplow Street Grow Site)
- New Hall Country Park
- Northfield Ecocentre
- Old Rectory Farm at Sheldon Country Park
- One Plot urban farming in Balsall Heath
- Richmond Community Garden
- Salop Drive Market Garden in Sandwell; facebook place here
- Sandwell Allotment Gardens Association
- Springfield Project Outdoors
- Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre
- Urban Harvest — who’ll make delicious juice from fruit off your tree/s
- Witton Lakes Park Community Orchard
- Winterbourne Botanic Garden (Urban Food Growing Centre opened in September 2012)
- Woodgate Valley Urban Farm