All Ways Apples
All Ways Apples began in 2010 as an annual celebration of the apple harvest through a dedicated day-long festival for all the family, held during the October half-term holiday. It has since developed to include a programme of wassailing, apple pressing and orchard care workshops in community orchard sites across Plymouth. Keep up to date with events throughout the year via the All Ways Apples Facebook Page and find your nearest community orchard via the Growing with Nature map.
Allotments
Plymouth City Council offer 37 allotment sites across the city, for which you can add your name to the waiting list here. Please be aware that demand heavily outstrips supply currently, with 1700 people on the waiting list as of December 2025. If you’re keen to get started sooner, do check out the numerous community garden initiatives below that you might be able to get involved with in the meantime.
City Farm House
City Farm House is an exciting urban farm housed in a former nightclub as part of a Nudge Community Builders initiative at C103 on Union Street in Stonehouse. It provides fresh produce, grow-your-own kits, and will provide education, workshops and apprenticeships through the production of mushrooms and aeroponic crops. Find out more via their Facebook page and on Instagram here.
Generous Earth Community Composting
Healthy, nutritious, delicious food starts with the soil. Food Plymouth’s Generous Earth project supports this reality as a community composting initiative creating a network of local community composters in Plymouth. Together they are enriching and conditioning soils by turning food waste and green waste into beautiful compost at three sites across the city, with volunteer days on the third Thursday of every month at Zoo Field in Central Park. Find them on Instagram and Facebook, plus a dedicated Facebook group here.
Growing with Nature Network
Facilitated by Food Plymouth with support from Plymouth Octopus Project and Green Minds partners at Plymouth City Council and The Data Place, the Growing with Nature Network aims to connect people, map action, and support growing projects with nature in mind. Find upcoming workshops and events via their Eventbrite page and watch the Growing with Nature short film for a flavour of what to expect.
Incredbile Edible UK
Led by Joanna Ruminska, Incredible Edible UK offers foraging workshops, talks, retreats, and writing rooted in the UK’s landscapes and seasons and works with a wide range of organisations, institutions, and communities, sharing knowledge around foraging, food, and our relationship with the natural world. Collaborators include BBC Radio Devon, Plymouth City Council, the Plymouth Sound National Marine Park, the National Trust, alongside schools, festivals, community groups, and more across the UK.
Inner City Seeds
With local wildlife, the environment and people at the heart of everything they do, Inner City Seeds run workshops creating community spaces for people and wildlife to enjoy, with the added aim of helping their team of volunteers’ mental wellness and tackling social isolation in the city. Find out more via their Facebook page, Facebook group and on Instagram, plus visit their Peace of Mind Patch, a medicinal garden and teaching space in Kintsugi Community Garden.
Kintsugi Community Garden & Kintsugi Gardening Co-op
The Kinstsugi Community Garden in Keyham is open to all from 10-11.30am Tuesday-Thursday, with free monthly events for all the family to share gardening skills, make compost and tackle food waste with a Community Fridge. It’s home to the Kintsugi Gardening Co-op, a collaboration between The Kintsugi Project, Food Plymouth, Inner City Seeds, Joanna Ruminska of Incredible Edible UK and Keyham resident Jessie Cotter.
Plymouth and South Devon Community Forest
Plymouth and South Devon Community Forest is working with landowners, tenants, businesses and communities to plant trees and create woodlands for the benefit of people, nature, and place. Planting trees from the heart of Plymouth to the edges of moor and shore, across 140,000 hectares equating to 196 football pitches! From their Forest Rising initiative for young people, Community Tree Nursery and, of course, tree planting, explore how you can get involved.
Plymouth Tree People
Plymouth Tree People have been caring for and planting trees in Plymouth through their passionate volunteer Tree Warden Network for over 20 years. Working with community groups, public body landowners and Plymouth City Council, they support local people to learn about trees and encourage them to get involved in their care. Membership is free and there are plenty of volunteering opportunities.
Pollenize CIC
What started as an unassuming initiative to create better access to beekeeping equipment and local honey in 2018 has since evolved into a dynamic organisation dedicated to addressing some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. Pollenize CIC conduct biodiversity surveys, create bespoke pollinator meadows and run bioblitz events (and much else besides), creating partnerships across the city that help pollinators thrive.
Poole Farm
Plymouth’s very own community farm, Poole Farm exists as a resource for the city and its residents and a space to enhance the wellbeing of future generations, providing opportunities for education, health and wellbeing, training and apprenticeships, sustainable food production, enterprise and volunteering. Find out how to sign up as a volunteer, plus follow all the latest news via Facebook.
Rebel Botanists
Rebel Botanists exist to educate and raise awareness of the beautiful and valuable wildplants at your feet: in pavement cracks, on grass verges and in urban parks. By chalking the names of plants on streets acroos Plymouth, they spark a vital curiousity in the natural world around us. As ‘rebel’ rather than qualified botanists themselves, the group is passionate about plants and free education. Find further inspiration on their website and Facebook page.
Snapdragons Plymouth
Nestled in the former bowling pavilion at Victoria Park is Snapdragons Plymouth, a Community Interest Company with a mission to bring communities together through nature. Their calendar is bursting with groups and events that cater to both adults and children, including Woodcraft Folk, Plymouth Red Tent, Plymouth Green Man Circle, volunteer sessions, seasonal fayres and much more. Follow their Facebook and Instagram for the latest happenings.
Wingfield Road Community Garden
A flourishing space for community and nature connection in Stoke Ward, Wingfield Road Community Garden was established by Andy Stickland in 2021 with support from Plymouth Community Homes. Acclaimed as Outstanding by the Royal Horticultural Society (2024) and deemed Best Community Garden by Stoke in Bloom (2023), the garden is open to visitors when members are present and anyone can connect via their Facebook group.
YMCA Plymouth Community Garden
The YMCA Community Garden on Honicknowle Lane provides fresh fruit and vegetables grown by the community, for the community. Under the YGrowers collaboration with young people at Discovery College, food grown in the garden is distributed to local people facing food insecurity via Provide Devon. Open to the public 10am-1pm on Sundays, the garden also hosts outdoor education projects and therapeutic workshops to support people’s mental health. Check their Facebook group to learn more.
