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Incredible Edible Pennine

Anyone can grow fruit and vegetables - and here’s your chance to sow the seeds of success without paying a penny.

Even if you only have a tiny patio, balcony or just a windowsill, you can still produce a bountiful crop and we want to encourage everyone to get growing.

We will provide interested tenants with a free ‘Edible Pennine’ starter pack,complete with easy to follow instructions. The packs include:

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• Seed potatoes and grow sacks

• Strawberry hanging baskets

• Tomato hanging baskets

• Tomato grow-bags or single pots for window bottoms

• Lettuce pots

• Mini allotment sacks for groups of tenants wanting to develop a community veg patch

• Seed potatoes, strawberry and tomato plants for tenants with their own garden.

We also want to hear from groups of tenants who would like to develop a community orchard

or herb gardens, which anyone can pick, on spare Pennine land.

Tenant involvement manager Val Morris, said: “Growing your own saves money and

encourages kids to eat fresh fruit and vegetables.

Here are just a few of the many reasons why it’s a great idea to grow your own:

• You can grow without pesticides

• Children learn about good food

• You decide what your family eats

• It gives a sense of achievement

• Your food will be totally local

• It’s good for the environment

• It’s easy and fun!“

It’s a great way to enjoy tastier food as you can grow for flavour – commercial growers grow for shelf life.”Anyone interested in a free Edible Pennine grow your own pack, or in joining volunteers to develop a community orchard or herb garden, is invited to leave a message with their name and phone number on 01422 824362.

Or take a bite out of our free offer by writing to us at the Freepost address below: Please state your name, address, telephone number and the type of property you live in - also let us know if you would be interested in working with other tenants to develope a community orchard or herb garden ?

Edible Pennine,

Pennine Housing 2000,

Freepost NEA15081,

Halifax, HX1 2BR

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