Edible Gardens, Forest Gardens & Community Growing in Oxford
Our edible garden projects in Oxford grew from the same people and principles behind Incredible Edible Oxford, founded in 2012 by Rachel Hammond after living in Todmorden, where the Incredible Edible movement began. Starting with a series of edible beds in Florence Park, East Oxford, we established productive growing spaces featuring culinary and medicinal herbs, fruit tree guilds, and perennial vegetables.
Today, our Forest Garden in Florence Park showcases a rich mix of perennial salad leaves, medicinal plants, pollinator-friendly species, and dye plants. This living landscape acts as both a productive growing space and an educational resource, hosting regular community gardening sessions and free workshops in Oxford to inspire people to grow their own food sustainably.
Our work is rooted in strong community food growing principles, including encouraging connections between people and nature, increasing edibles and wildlife, valuing natural resources, reducing waste through reuse and recycling, and delivering inclusive education for all ages. Through edible landscape design, forest garden creation, and hands-on workshops, we support individuals, families, schools, and local communities across Oxford.
From edible gardens and community growing projects in East Oxford to practical training in sustainable food production, our mission is to create healthy, productive, and inclusive green spaces that reconnect people with food, nature, and each other.