In Summer 2025 the GREAT Market Garden was awarded funding from Cotswold District Council to support Community Volunteering at the market garden. There are two sets of weekly volunteering sessions planned, the first lot took place in Autumn 2025, and the second lot will start in Spring 2026. Volunteers from the local community, as well as students from the RAU join together with our trained volunteer coodinator, Archie, to help harvest tomatoes, make biochar, and build bug ho

In the Summer of 2025 the GREAT Market Garden was awarded funding from Greener Gloucestershire's Community Climate Change Fund to create a composting project at our GREAT Market Garden. Work has begun working with Eddie from Rhizophillia to design a new composting system on the site and a community composting workshop is planned for Spring 2026. Our volunteer team got stuck in straight away helping to create a wind row strip along with help from Gloucestershire's Master Comp

The GREAT Market Garden adjacent to the RAU in Cirencester, Gloucestershire is seeking an experienced Head Grower to join our supportive project team, leading on the commercial element of the project. See FWAG SW's website for further details and how to apply! Deadline Monday 9th February 2026. small polytunnel and propagation

FWAG SouthWest worked with CCRI to produce these four case studies of farms on the floodplains of Gloucesteshire. Debbie manages Norton...

GREAT Zerodig Project is looking for a Head Grower for its new site located at the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester and...

This is the second report from Jonty Brunyee and Danielle Semple of FarmED, put together for the GREAT Project. It helps to map key...

Event Date: 6th September 2023 Venue: Wye Organic, Goodrich Village Hall, Goodrich, Ross on Wye, HR9 6HX Speakers Kitty Stainsby,...

Beginning early on a cool and fresh summer’s morning, a group of over 40 agroecological changemakers working across the food and farming...

Pasture for Life has published their report into Mob Grazing in the Cairngorms. The project was a partnership with the Park Authority,...