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Job Vacancy: Grower, Occombe, Devon

Occombe Farm is a 150 acre educational organic livestock farm on the edge of Paignton in Devon. Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust, which runs Occombe, has secured £475,000 of funding from the Local Food Fund and various charitable trusts for its One Planet Food Project at the farm. The aim of the project is to promote sustainable food-growing and cooking in and around Torbay, based on the fact that we only have one planet to feed us.

The project will firstly set up a 4-acre smallholding under a “community supported agriculture” (CSA) scheme. CSA schemes involve local people in planning what will be grown on the land, helping with the work and then sharing the harvest. A new Community Kitchen will be built so that school children and adult learners can cook with produce harvested on the smallholding. The project will also promote growing your own food, allotments, school gardens and cookery clubs across Torbay. There will be many volunteering opportunities for people who want to learn more about growing and a wide range of courses will be run in gardening and food related topics. The Trust is currently looking to employ a full-time Grower to set up the smallholding and CSA scheme – for more details visit www.occombe.org.uk or call 01803 606035.

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