We currently have three families growing their own seasonal vegetables. Our main focus is to facilitate as many local people as possible to grow their own food through a co-operative scheme. The project is 'not for profit'. We believe that everybody deserves access to healthy food and the space and help to learn the true costs and the rewards involved. We share fresh seasonal produce which raises our standards of living, aides our wellbeing and subsidises our weekly food bills.

​Although we recognise the importance of allotments both economically and historically, Spring Mills Gardening Group has not adopted the traditional Allotment approach - we all work together on the same plot of land.
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All the groundworks and preparations each season are done by the Springmills Garden Group together and the aftercare divided amongst our members. Instead of dividing the land into sperate plots - all the crops are sown and grown together as they would be on a commercial farm. Each year the planting continues on a traditional crop rotation scheme.

The benefits of this include;
1. a reduced workload to each family or memeber, as they need to tend the crops less frequently.
2. an increased yield as a large workforce can plant a bigger crop and management, weeding and pest control are easier in small monocultures. 
3. more social interaction and inter reliance within the community.
4. no 'fallow land' as is often the case with conventional allotment schemes; members can drop out and others can join to keep the land in use.  
5. In this group scheme the members will also share their losses as well as their gains so that the loss of a few plants does not deprive any one grower of the final harvest.
6. We socialise together, enjoy ourselves and learn together making full use of each others skills, knowledge or energy.