Home-grown fruit and vegetables can also help you achieve eating the recommended five-a-day portions of fruit and vegetables as part of your diet, and can reduce your food bills.
Portsmouth has a number of initiatives to provide you with advice and experience to grow your own fruit and vegetables. A wide range of volunteering opportunities are also available.
The community allotment is a council project that has been running since 2002 and has made an important contribution to improving the health and wellbeing of many Portsmouth residents.
The community allotment has four plots (with disabled access), two poly tunnels and a training pod. For over ten years this community project has offered training, confidence building, volunteering opportunities, a therapeutic environment and a shared appreciation of growing things.
Portsmouth residents can get involved in the community allotment themselves – health and social care departments can also make referrals.
Community or school groups can access the allotment for visits and learning workshops too.
For more information email iwt@portsmouthcc.gov.uk, or phone 023 9284 1762 or 07984 154 466.
Further information on the last ten years of the community allotment can be found in the document below.
There are many factsheets available online about growing your own fruit and vegetables:
Portsmouth City Council has over 1,400 allotment plots at eleven sites throughout the city. They are so popular that all have waiting lists.
