Respect planetary boundaries

We grow food in a sustainable way for people and the planet.

We want to increase environmentally sustainable behaviour across all areas of our business.

Our Impact Aims

Improve health and wellbeing

We aim to make healthy food accessible to everyone

We want to support people to reconnect with food growing to enhance their wellbeing.

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Partnering with our community

We support other local social enterprise initiatives as part of a local community.

We want to communicate with our community to ensure that we are responding to local needs.

Create learning opportunities

We provide knowledge exchange opportunities relating to sustainability, health, and wellbeing

We want to empower people to develop green and interpersonal skills.

Featured Case Study

From Headwear to Healthier Food Systems.

Through our 1% for the Planet partnership with Beechfield Brands, we are delivering hands-on education and community growing programmes that connect people to sustainable food systems. Together, we are supporting young people and communities to build skills, confidence and awareness around food, health and the environment, while creating meaningful pathways into green careers and long-term positive change

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The
Challenge

The leafy green crops we were providing to the Food Pantry at Tiber St in Toxteth were not widely used in the dishes cooked by some community members.

Our
Approach

We built relationships with volunteers and community members using the food pantry. We invited them to our vertical farm, showed them how we grow, asked them what they would like us to grow and listened to them.

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The
Impact

We grew new crops in colaboration with community members. Built relationships and trust. Developed model of social innovation we are replicating with communities across the UK

Key
Insights

There are some amazing leafy green crops we had never heard of, widely used in Caribbean, African and Middle Eastern cooking which it turns out grow very well in our vertical farm.

How We Work

Our Approach to Impact

We work with communities, public institutions and partners to understand local food, health and environmental challenges in context.
Drawing on evidence, lived experience and systems thinking, we co-design practical solutions that respond to real needs.
We test ideas in real settings, offices, schools, hospitals, community organisations, embedding solutions where they will have the most impact.
We collect data, evaluate outcomes and learn quickly, strengthening social, health and environmental impact through iteration.
We support long-term adoption, replication and partnerships, scaling what works and sharing learning to influence wider systems.

Discover & Engage

desk research, mapping, interviews

Co-create & Test

community sessions,
hands on pilots.

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Implement & scale

strategy, pathways, models, pilots

Analyse & Iterate

themes, behavioural patterns, barriers

Other Projects

Community Engagement across Manchester

Community events and social science activities across Manchester

Through focus groups, workshops and hands-on engagement, we gathered lived experience insights, tested ideas in real settings and shaped system and space design around community needs.
This work combined qualitative insight with practical delivery, strengthening local relationships and informing scalable, people-centred food system innovation.

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Experience Day with South London Community Leaders

Immersive experience day at our Liverpool HQ, to explore community-embedded food growing in practice.

Participants engaged hands-on with our growing systems, Edible Walls and education programmes, building shared understanding of how vertical farming can support health, skills and food justice.
The day strengthened relationships, built trust, and laid a solid foundation for future collaboration.