Claver Hill Community Food Project
Phone: N/A
Address: Claver Hill
Ridge Lane
Lancaster
LA1 3JY
Ridge Lane
Lancaster
LA1 3JY
Claver Hill is a community food project located on the edge of Lancaster City. It hosts a number of different initiatives and anyone can become a member and get involved with the projects running on the site. Six acres of the site are used as a shared space for food growing, nature and community projects. The rest of the 21 acres is given to livestock grazing and the planting of native woodland trees resulting in a diversity of habitats hosting a range of wildflowers, plants and fungi.
The site hosts a number of projects including:
• Spud Club: a no-dig food growing project open to anyone from the community to grow food together whilst building friendship and sharing food, recipes, stories, skills, and knowledge.
• The Lancaster Seed Library is bringing back the lost art & skill of seed saving. It reskills local growers & gardeners in seed saving whilst developing a living bank of locally adapted seed varieties at Claver Hill.
• Global Link Growing Project: Global Link is working with Claver Hill to enable refugees and asylum seekers to grow their own organic food, both at Claver Hill and in their own yards and gardens. This project brings refugees and asylum seekers together with the local community, offering the opportunity to share skills and cultures
• The Claver Hill Nature trail which winds around the site and through adjoining woodland. T
• The Lancaster Sewing Café Natural Dyes Project: This project was set up to explore the feasibility of natural dyes in Lancaster and Morecambe and to raise awareness of the toxic effects of industrial dyes on the environment and implications for health.
• Horseshoe Farm Flowers was established on the Claver Hill site in 2020. They grow beautiful, organic cut flowers for sale, host community activities for wellbeing and fill Claver Hill with beautiful flowers and wildflower strips. Find out more at their website: https://horseshoefarmflowers.co.uk/about-us
• The Claver Hill Tree Nursery: grafting and growing fruiting trees for the community. The group runs skill share sessions on coppicing, pruning as well as supporting the site in managing our shelter belts, fruit bushes and trees.
The site hosts a number of projects including:
• Spud Club: a no-dig food growing project open to anyone from the community to grow food together whilst building friendship and sharing food, recipes, stories, skills, and knowledge.
• The Lancaster Seed Library is bringing back the lost art & skill of seed saving. It reskills local growers & gardeners in seed saving whilst developing a living bank of locally adapted seed varieties at Claver Hill.
• Global Link Growing Project: Global Link is working with Claver Hill to enable refugees and asylum seekers to grow their own organic food, both at Claver Hill and in their own yards and gardens. This project brings refugees and asylum seekers together with the local community, offering the opportunity to share skills and cultures
• The Claver Hill Nature trail which winds around the site and through adjoining woodland. T
• The Lancaster Sewing Café Natural Dyes Project: This project was set up to explore the feasibility of natural dyes in Lancaster and Morecambe and to raise awareness of the toxic effects of industrial dyes on the environment and implications for health.
• Horseshoe Farm Flowers was established on the Claver Hill site in 2020. They grow beautiful, organic cut flowers for sale, host community activities for wellbeing and fill Claver Hill with beautiful flowers and wildflower strips. Find out more at their website: https://horseshoefarmflowers.co.uk/about-us
• The Claver Hill Tree Nursery: grafting and growing fruiting trees for the community. The group runs skill share sessions on coppicing, pruning as well as supporting the site in managing our shelter belts, fruit bushes and trees.
Facilities: Volunteering, Community recycling/composting, Wildlife area
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