Welcome to the Moray Community Growing Network

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Community growing brings people together in powerful ways.

It strengthens local connections, builds resilience, and can play a vital role in achieving community food security and increasing biodiversity.

The simple act of growing — whether in a garden, allotment, shared plot, polygrub or windowsill, can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, cut food waste, improve our health and nutrition of the food we eat, as well creating more biodiverse growing and gardening spaces.

Learning Through Collaboration

The Moray Community Growing Network brings together gardens and growing spaces from across the area to learn from one another. Through site visits, shared activity, and peer support, members exchange ideas, knowledge, and practical solutions. This collaborative approach helps strengthen local projects and spread best practice across community growing in Moray.

Supporting Sustainability and Resilience

We recognise that community growing spaces often face wider challenges around funding, governance, and long‑term sustainability. Alongside practical growing support, we host training sessions on topics such as funding, organisational development, and building resilient projects. This ensures groups are better equipped to sustain and grow their work over time.

Open to Everyone Interested in Growing

The network is open not only to established community growing projects, but also to individuals who are interested in food growing and nature‑friendly spaces. We support learning around creating gardens that are rich in biodiversity and better connected to the natural environment. This inclusive approach helps grow skills, confidence, and involvement across the community.

A Backbone for Good Food and Policy Change

The Moray Community Growing Network is beginning to form a strong backbone for community food growing across Moray. By connecting projects and people, it enables shared learning and coordinated action. This collective way of working helps drive progress locally while contributing to wider ambitions such as Scotland’s Good Food Nation Act.

Cullen Community Allotments

The Patch Community Garden, Duffus

REAP Community Growing Projects

Aberlour Glebe Garden

ONE SEED FORWARD

One Seed Forward is playing an important role in making community food growing more accessible, inclusive, and sustainable here in Moray.

Some of their seed library projects, delivered in partnership with Moray CAN a few years ago, marked the beginning of our relationship. The project was hugely successful and continues to be, increasing people’s access to free seeds, sparking interest in growing, and laying the foundations for longer‑term collaboration with Moray CAN Growing members.

Building on this early success, One Seed Forward continues to work closely with the Moray Community Growing Network, supporting gardens and growing spaces with seeds, practical knowledge, and hands‑on advice. Their expertise helps strengthen local projects and encourages sustainable, shared approaches to food growing across Moray.

As well as sharing seeds, workshops, seed libraries, One Seed Forward also supports people with practical, accessible knowledge through their website and recent Growing Guide zine, helping more people grow food confidently and sustainably.