A word from our founder, Rhiannon:

Working full time in education, often with vulnerable pupils and families and as the cost of living crisis and poverty rates in the UK have increased, I have supported more and more families in accessing food banks. Through my conversations with them, and my work leading food nutrition across my previous schools, it became apparent that often families felt fresh fruit and vegetables were an expense that they couldn’t always afford and so were often some of the first things to be cut out of their food shopping when things were tight. And while donations to food banks are often very generous, due to the nature of collections, fresh produce is not always available for donation. We believe that everyone should have access to healthy and nutritious food, whatever their circumstances and this is what inspired us to set up Devon Dig and Donate.

By establishing a vegetable garden by the community, for the community, we endeavour to create friendships and community and to facilitate the learning, sharing and development of skills in the natural environment and provide a means of climate action locally.