About Us

Green Care at Norton supports and brings about positive changes in the lives of adults living with loneliness, unemployment or who are socially excluded through mental illness, learning difficulties or other disabilities.

Based on three different sites across Letchworth Garden City, participants work alongside volunteers to grow their own food and flowers.

Participants benefit from having a safe and secure place to make friends, learn and develop skills, and enjoy the mental and physical health benefits of gardening outdoors.

Our participants can gain valuable skills such as larger-scale commercial growing of food and flowers, marketing, pricing of items, floristry, architectural landscaping, or grounds maintenance.

We are a social enterprise selling our fruit, vegetables and flowers at various outlets including the shop at Standalone Farm.

There's no charge to attend our sessions. We take referrals and self-referrals, so if you know someone who could benefit from our project please get in touch.

Our project was made possible thanks to National Lottery players through The National Lottery Awards for All programme.

Our Vision

Our vision is to passionately grow and sell top-notch local produce and gorgeous flowers, guaranteeing that every customer leaves with a smile! We’re working to create a dynamic Food Resilience Community through horticulture, ready to make a national and global impact by providing healthy and delicious food for everyone!

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Community

Working as a community underpins everything we do,
promoting better outcomes, personal friendships and the ability to work with others

Resilience

To build a resilient community infrastructure where people
support the community and each other in food provision and wellbeing

Health

We believe that access to high quality produce is a
fundamental right. We give good quality produce to those who would otherwise be unable to obtain it

Quality

We believe that good quality food has the power to change
lives. We do it by growing healthy and naturally grown good food

Wellbeing

We believe that working on the land and cultivating healthy
food and beautiful flowers improves wellbeing in a multitude of colourful ways

Sustainability

We relentlessly seek to re-use, repurpose and recycle
materials used at our project minimising our carbon footprint.

Our Values

Employment Adviser, The Job Centre

"The people we have signposted to Green Care have nothing but praise for their experience of getting involved with the project and seeing real results from what they are doing. It’s wonderful to see people really growing in confidence with their social and physical skills, and hearing them share their experiences. For us it has been a breath of fresh air to discover a project that, with passion and understanding, welcomes everyone and genuinely helps them move forwards."