Grow, Cook Eat! 2025/26
Grow, Cook, Eat! brought people together through food, gardening, creativity and culture, creating opportunities for community members of all ages and backgrounds to connect, learn and celebrate.
Over the course of the project, participants shared meals, explored growing and cooking skills, took part in arts and cultural activities, and helped shape the future of our community garden.
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Cultural exchange was at the heart of the programme, with events celebrating Black History Month, Indian food and culture, Chinese New Year and tai chi, Irish music and dancing, vintage tea traditions, 1980s goth culture, British Halloween folklore and storytelling, community arts, fashion, music, gardening knowledge and intergenerational sharing.
A lasting legacy of the project is the co-created community cookbook, featuring recipes, stories and illustrations developed by local residents in collaboration with local artist Lo Tierney.
Participants also helped establish a new fruit and nut tree grove at the garden, creating a valuable community resource that will provide food, beauty and biodiversity for years to come.
Grow, Cook, Eat! has demonstrated the power of food and growing to bring people together, strengthen community connections and celebrate the diverse cultures that make our neighbourhood special.
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Grow, Cook Eat! 2024/25
Over the project we did 3 co-design sessions, 15 horticulture sessions and 11 free community meals with a cultural activity.
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Our community meals included: Vintage fashion show and afternoon tea, Black History Month Ethiopian food and crafts, Halloween stew and ghost stories, Middle Eastern lunch and dancing, Christmas and karaoke, zine making and lunch, veggie scouse and a film screening, Irish lunch and dancing, Mexican food and crafts, pizza making with Marco, Bengali lunch and dancing.
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We also supported a local young person with work experience on this project, they are now working in communications and marketing in Liverpool!
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We have memorialised the project in a cookbook for families, you can access our family cookbook online. Or download the family cookbook.
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Funded thanks to The National Lottery Community fund.​​​​
Grow, Cook Eat! 2022/23
Over The project, we hosted two co-design sessions, two planting days and 15 community meals!
We planted, harvested, cooked and served food from around the world, everything from Ethiopian curry to Italian sourdough pizza.
Our community meals were aimed at bringing different cultures together over food, the events were as follows: Foraged stew, Halloween soup, Veggie Christmas meal, Bengali lunch, Moroccan meal, Jewish lunch, Ethopian meal, Mexican bean stew, Italian pizza making day, Welsh afternoon tea, Scouse lunch, summer salad harvesting and eating.
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We also supported a recent asylum seeker through work experience in communications, which helped them get a job in that field of work.
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