The GREAT Market Garden is an agroecological market garden and teaching space next to the RAU in Cirencester.

 

Funding from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation has enabled FWAG SW to lead a partnership project to transition a 7-acre former arable field in Cirencester into a thriving agroecological market garden and teaching space for the community. The site is now producing sustainable food for local businesses and social enterprises, as well as helping students and the wider community to develop new skills and knowledge around regenerative horticulture.

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​GREAT stands for Gloucestershire Regenerative Environment and Agriculture Transition, and began life as a three-year project, funded by Thirty Percy, to boost the transition to farming methods that restore the soil, water and air.  GREAT's impact and legacy was to join the dots between farmers, advisors, growers, mentors and their communities to facilitate the change that is urgently needed for a resilient future for farms, nature and the earth.

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The Great Market Garden and Great Woodlands projects grew from the seeds of the GREAT project.