About us
Grow Shetland is an online resource for growers and food producers in Shetland. Through this website we hope to encourage more people to become involved in food production, either just for themselves or on a larger scale.
We are aiming to bring together people who can help one another - those looking for land with those who have space to spare, those who want to work with those who need some help, and those who have questions with those who have answers. Grow Shetland also aims to provide useful resources and freecycle facilities, and to promote some of the innovative horticultural and agricultural projects currently going on in the islands.
Grow Shetland is a project developed by the Transition Shetland network.
Forums
Several sections of this website are forum-based. Users may sign up to these forums and post 'adverts'. Whether you're looking for a small plot of land, need some help in the garden or want some advice on keeping pigs, these can be a great place to find what you're looking for.
To contact a user just click on their name to see their profile, then click the link marked 'Send email to . . .' Guests may post in the forums without signing up but this is not recommended. If you do not sign up you will need to leave your details within your post if you wish to be contacted.
Resources
Whether you are just getting started with growing vegetables or are an old hand in the garden we hope to provide resources that are useful to you. Currently these include a sowing calendar, a list of 'successful seeds' and a freecycle forum, as well as an increasing list of other projects currently happening in the isles.
We plan to expand these resources and to develop others as time goes on, but to do so we need your help. If you would like to make any suggestions for other useful resources, or to help out in other ways, just send us an email at the address shown above.
Please note
Grow Shetland is a non-commercial project and is intended only as a local resource. We advise that anyone making contact via our forums, particularly with a view to sharing land or offering work, does so with a reasonable degree of care and common sense. We do not take any responsibility for the success of such projects.
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