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HogCO helps school to deliver school lunches

Home Grown Community Owned (HogCO) has been working with Chagford Church of England Primary School over the last few months to help it boost its food production. The school has become 'self-performing' following the government change in school meals delivery. This means the school is able to decide its own menus, source ingredients locally, ...

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New HogCo food growing group in Buckland

The Buckland Food Growers (BFG) are one of the Community Council of Devon's 37 Home Grown Community Owned (HogCo) food growing projects. The group of around 30 volunteers are based at the National Trust's Buckland Abbey. Having dreamt up the idea of growing in the community only last spring, the group have quickly progressed to signing a lea ...

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Happy Spring from HogCO!

We hope you're enjoying the sunshine, with the colour and growth it brings. HogCO is now working with 37 groups around Devon, and the Spring newsletter (available to download here) is full of news from their projects and other great opportunities to be part of. We're always happy to hear from new individuals or groups that would like support to ...

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Home Grown: Community Owned; winter 2010 newsletter

01 November 2010 'Home Grown: Community Owned' publishes its Winter 2010 newsletter   Click [ here ] to view this publication   ...

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Press Release: 6th October 2010

Helping Communities Grow their Own. Three free toolkits available As of today, groups across Devon who want to grow their own food will be able to get help from three new toolkits, launched by the Community Council of Devon (CCD) [1]. The 3 toolkits, developed with help from the Soil Association [2] as part of the Community Supported Agricul ...

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