Blackhill’s Growing was set up to bring our community together through the simple acts of growing good food, cooking good food and eating good food. Blackhill is what’s known as a “food desert”, where there is little access to fresh fruit and veg and few opportunites for people to enjoy nutritious food together. We have been working hard to transform this, running a weekly vegetable Barra, selling fresh fruit and veg, alongside our own local produce from the garden, and freshly baked bread from the local Blackhill Bakery. On top of this we run a weekly community meal, where we serve delicious three course meals, made partly from diverted supermarket food waste, to the local community for free, whilst also running a small referral free food bank, open to all. Aside from helping families with their weekly food bills, our community meals provide a much needed social space for people to get together over a shared meal. We also run a weekly pizza night, where people can gather in our garden and cook their own pizza’s in our delicious wood-fired outdoor pizza oven.