Projects

Sow the City delivers a wide range of innovative projects across various sectors focussing on community engagement, urban greening, and health and wellbeing.

  • Growing Manchester

    Helping 120 community food growing groups across the city.

  • The Boiler House

    Our centre for making and mending in the heart of Moss Side.

  • Achieve Recovery

    Green wellbeing activity programme for people in recovery.

  • Nature Neighbourhoods

    Co-creating a people’s plan for nature for Newton Health.

  • The Nature of Moss Side

    Green space mapping and green space recommendations for the ward.

  • Rewild Moss Side

    Celebrating Moss Side’s natural mossy heritage.

  • Support to Succeed

    Enrichment provider for the work and skills programme.

  • Postcode Gardener

    Celebrating 50 new green spaces in Wythenshawe.

  • Green Health Walk

    Promoting the physical and mental benefits of nature.

  • Greater Manchester Green Spaces Fund

    Now open applications.

  • Nature for Health

    A green social prescribing service for Manchester residents.

  • In Our Nature

    Working together to find new ways to make Manchester greener and healthier.

  • Men’s Shed

    Practical sessions for men to connect, converse and create.

  • Ladybarn Gardening Club

    Fun and practical workshops engaging pupils in the environment.

  • Carbon Supermarket

    Food shopping with carbon not pounds.

  • Castlefield Viaduct

    ‘In Our Nature Garden’ encouraging nature connection.

  • Plant Orchestra

    Creating music with plants and mushrooms.

  • Bradshaw Community Garden

    A green resource created to engage the community and improve the environment.

  • Rock Street Community Woodland

    Creating a thriving site for people and for wildlife.

  • Manchester Food Poverty Mapping

    Mapping Manchester to reveal sites of potential food poverty.

  • The Grange Community Garden

    Therapeutic horticulture sessions for the community.

  • Food Wave

    EU partnership project engaging young people in climate change action.

  • Healthy Schools Partnership Challenge

    New food growing spaces to engage pupils and encourage healthy eating.

  • Green Minds

    Providing food growing space and activities in a hospital setting.

  • #Thrive Ecotherapy

    Horticulture and environmental therapy programme for young people.

  • Cornbrook Medical Practice

    Creating a green space based interventions for patients in a GP surgery.

  • Grow Cook Eat Stockport

    Encouraging food growing and healthy eating.

  • Helping Old Moat Eat

    Tackling food poverty through community engagement in food growing.

  • Hospital Beds

    Construction skills and growing skills with hospital service users.

  • Growing Communities

    Growing in gardens to provide cheap and healthy food in disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

  • Allotment of the Future

    An innovative new hydroponics system now installed at the Manchester Printworks.

  • Growing Together

    Providing the skills and opportunities to help growing groups become sustainable.

  • Haveley Hey Wildlife Garden

    Transformation of unused school space for wildlife, growing and education.

  • Growing Schools

    Supporting teachers and practitioners to increase learning outside the classroom.