Award-winning sustainable community gardening to educate and improve wellbeing in East Malling. Improving the lives of children, young people and adults in our community through therapeutic gardening, food education and volunteer opportunities at our charity in the heart of Kent.
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The Field School
A unique, nurturing learning environment, teaching children and young people to grow seasonal food in a sustainable way to work with nature and to protect our natural world.
A safe space, led by qualified teachers with over 15 years’ experience of working with children of all abilities needs and abilities. Proud to be a Learning Outside the Classroom Quaility Badge holder.
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Therapeutic Gardening for Adults
A welcoming, supportive community with small group sessions to help improve mental and physical wellbeing in our beautiful green space. Feel more connected, spend time outdoors in nature, learn new skills at your own pace and meet new people.
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Sustainability
Our comittment to the environment is central to everything we do. The Communigrow garden is solely powered by solar energy, we use sustainable growing techniques such as 'no-dig', companion planting, encouraging natural predators and our veg is totally chemical free. Our beautiful green space includes wildflower meadows, wildlife ponds, habitats for wildlife and bee hives. Our staff are Carbon Literacy Trained and we provide accredited Carbon Literacy Training to other organisations.
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Communigrow provides a vital link between sustainable horticulture and community health.
We operate from our Community Garden in East Malling and across communities in Kent and Medway.
"On arriving at Communigrow Daniel said, ‘Mum, this is my place.’ Socially he would never instigate a conversation but he will talk to other children during sessions. He told me that he had made a friend - he has never made a friend before."
"I’ve built a group of friends at Communigrow which has made me feel like a human again. Just things like having the Christmas dinner together or having a coffee in the breaks is really important. I never get invited to things normally and have been made to feel different, excluded and lazy because of my disabilities in the past. This group is the opposite of that."
"It’s a really rewarding part of volunteering at Communigrow - seeing people from all backgrounds, age groups, with different needs, abilities and skills working together and flourishing in a community. It's a lovely space - magical at times."
