Food is free Carnoustie evolved from the Common Weal Angus (CWA) group. Common Weal Angus is a local group whose philosophy is ‘All of us First’ and works to educate and inspire people to improve their community at a local level.
One of the members had an interest in the #foodisfree movement and was keen to see this spread throughout Angus. This led to a few of the Carnoustie members of CWA finding a vacant plot of land to start growing vegetables and finding more volunteers.
The #foodisfree movement began in 2012 in Texas and has now become a global movement. The premise is that people grow vegetables to give away for free. A table is placed out on the street and people can take what they want. Its aim is to encourage people to eat fresh food, grow their own produce, think locally and improve mental wellbeing through gardening.
The project is reliant on donations and the good will of local people, groups and businesses and no one has let us down. In fact we are constantly amazed at the generosity of the community. We have had wooden pallets donated from the local Co-Op farm for building beds, manure and plants from The Accidental Smallholder and local people have donated seeds and seedlings for planting. Not to mention the time, energy and man hours that local people are putting in when they come and join in.
In October of 2015 we ere kindly given permission from a local business owner Ross Smyth to use a derelict piece of land which, with the enthusiastic and eager support of local people, we are now in the process of transforming.
Our aim is to reuse and recycle where possible to keep costs to a minimum and also raise awareness of reusing and recycling unwanted items.
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