City market garden put on hold
Hewett School governors have turned down plans for a 3 acre market garden on their playing fields, for now. The project, which would produce vegetables to be sold locally, has a applied for lottery funding to get off the ground. But governors weren’t convinced by the proposal put forward by the East Anglia Food Link (EAFL).
The market garden idea is one of a number of city-based projects in the pipeline focussed on local food sourcing and linking producers to consumers. Governors at a meeting last week told EAFL they want to see a better case put to them, before agreeing to the plans. Tully Wakeman from EAFL said: “We haven’t been turned down, but the governors have put the plans on hold. I now need to make up ground so we don’t miss out on lottery funding for the project.”
The not-for-profit commercial market garden would involve both pupils from The Hewett in their enterprise curriculum and the wider local community. The project is looking into developing links with other local schools, where the produce could be sold to parents through “playground markets.”
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