OrganicLea Workers coop - set up in 2001. 23 members NE London - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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OrganicLea Workers coop - set up in 2001. 23 members NE London former council plant nursery Turnover 750K Aims/ Activities We Grow: Organic Market Garden & Plant Nursery We Sell: Box Scheme, Market Stalls, Resturants


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OrganicLea

  • Workers coop - set up in 2001. 23 members
  • NE London
  • former council plant nursery
  • Turnover £750K
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Aims/ Activities

  • We Grow: Organic Market Garden & Plant

Nursery

  • We Sell: Box Scheme, Market Stalls,

Resturants

  • We Support Others to Do the Same:
  • Volunteering Programme
  • Learning and skills
  • Outreach Gardening
  • We Work for Wider Change
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OrganicLea’s Farm Start

  • Since 2014
  • Why?
  • Extend “progression pathway” for our

participants

  • Increase supply of produce
  • Replication/ Self-seeding
  • Changing the Food System
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How It Works

Training Incubation Support Partnership

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Training

  • Volunteering Programme
  • Horticulture Courses: City & Guilds Level 1 & 2
  • Work Placements
  • Traineeships

– including Farm Start Traineeship

  • Apprenticeship
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Incubation & Support: What we offer

  • Access to Land
  • Grower Mentoring
  • Marketing Access & Support
  • Some Capital
  • Fundraising & Enterprise

Support

  • Management of Farm Start

Programme

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Incubation > Support > Partnership: Our Sites

  • Farm Start Trainee Plots at our site
  • Micro-Plot on Private Garden
  • Derelict Allotment Plots
  • Former Plant Nursery in Haringey
  • Pasteur Gardens –

3 Hectare Urban Site

  • Rural Holdings
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Incubation > Support > Partnership: Marketing Models

  • Preferential Access to our Box Scheme & Stalls
  • Access to our Restaurant Waiting List
  • Chef Supported

Agriculture

  • Loans For Veg
  • Independent

Marketing

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Challenges

  • Access to Land & Capital
  • Resources – For Farm Starters and Programme
  • Tension between flexibility & structure
  • Ensuring Progression/ Succession
  • Generating

Sustainable Livelihoods from “Real Farming”

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Successes/ Triumphs

  • Livelihoods, skills & enterprises
  • Tonnes more local agroecological produce
  • Sustained interest from all areas
  • National Farm Start Network