Teign Greens has continued to supply the local Teign Valley community and beyond with affordable, locally-grown organic vegetables as an ethical, local and dependable alternative to the supermarket. During this period, the number of subscribing member households slightly increased to around 90. We expanded to new collection points in Newton Abbot and Heavitree in Exeter, bringing our total to 7 collection points. We hope to enable more local people to access eating nutritious and sustainably produced local veg every week, promoting health, reducing food miles and helping create a resilient local food system locally. Funded by the National Lottery Awards for All programme, regular volunteering has continued, welcoming around 10 regular volunteers to the farm every Tuesday to learn about growing and benefit from working on the land. We also hosted 11 well attended Saturday morning volunteer sessions open to families. Over this year we hosted over 80 different day volunteers who contributed 2283 hours! This included a regular Gold DofE volunteer, weekly volunteering from a young person from Running Deer CIC school and his case worker and many young people attending our weekend volunteering with their families. 100% of the 20 volunteers who completed our January 25 survey said they would recommend volunteering with us to a friend! Corporate volunteer groups came and helped on the land, including 30 local GPs who came to volunteer and learn about social prescribing. Over the summer months, we hosted 10 residential volunteer ‘Wwoofers’ from all over the world, who altogether spent 26 weeks learning growing skills and benefiting from doing meaningful, rewarding work outside with others. We’ve also continued being part of the Apricot Centre’s Level 4 Land Based Regenerative Systems course, welcoming another full-time year-long trainee in January 2025. Last year’s trainee has gone on to be employed as a maternity cover within Teign Greens. We’ve hosted visits groups of visiting young people on the On the Hill programme and a U3A group. We also ran a well-attended open day and farm tour for the local community. We spoke to local people at 2 local fairs and 2 local WI groups. Around 500 people have benefited from working on the land and learnt about what Teign Greens does in this year. We still grow using better than organic methods, promoting biodiversity through our tree alleys, green manures and wildflowers strips. Funded by the Halleria Trust we built a large polytunnel this year, which will increase our climate resilience in the face of more extreme weather and enabling us to produce more food in the hungry gap. Teign Greens continues to partner with food poverty organisations including Teign Valley Larder, Chudfridge, Bovey Fridge and Newton Abbott community Fridge, reducing food waste and food poverty locally by donating surplus or grade out veg and members veg bags whilst on holiday every week, meaning there is virtually no wasted veg in our system. We also supplied local businesses & events such as Embercombe and the Doddiscombsleigh Art Show subsidising our work and reducing food miles.

Teign Green’s stakeholders are members of the local community who sign up to the vegetable box scheme, those who volunteer to help with the growing and local partners such as the Teign Valley Larder. We did a volunteer survey of all our regular volunteers in January 2025, in which 20 of our regular volunteers participated. This feedback fed into planning volunteering opportunities and ways to increase our impact for the 25-26 season, which will be funded again by the National Lottery. Furthermore, all Teign Greens members were invited to complete a detailed anonymous survey in November 2024, and 60 participated. This informed the veg growing for the 25-26 season, and also the timing and format of open days and volunteering opportunities. Volunteers and members are also regularly consulted face to face whilst volunteering at the farm or at collection time. Meetings are regularly held with community partners such as Oxen Park Farm, On the Hill and the Teign Valley Larder. Teign Greens is well known in the local community, sending out weekly email newsletters and monthly contributions to the parish magazine with our contact information. Feedback has largely been very positive, and the team has adapted practice in line with constructive feedback wherever possible.

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