Market Good Food Neighbourhood

There are two ways you can apply for an allotment in your neighbourhood. You can either apply through Cambridge City Council for a plot on one of the allotments they manage or apply for a plot which is ran by a local allotment society. Visit Cambridge Allotments Network to find your closest allotment.

Growing Spaces is ran by Transition Cambridge, aiming to reclaim unloved and underused public spaces around the city and transform them into edible landscapes. Find out more about how to get involved in your local growing space here.

Midsummer Common Community Orchard is run by members of Friends of Midsummer Common on a voluntary basis.It’s a beautiful space with over 50 trees, seating areas, and other plantings. Take a look at their website for more information on volunteering or to get in touch with them.

Cambridge Community Kitchen are a food solidarity collective offering free, hot, plant-based community meals to those who need them every Thursday and Sunday.

Foodcycle Cambridge serve a Community Meal made from surplus food at St Andrew’s Street Baptist Church every Saturday.

St Paul’s Church cook and share food together three times a week at Monday Simple Supper, Thursday Lunch Club and Friday Lunch Club.

Boots, Superdrug, Sainsbury’s, Little Waitrose and Tesco all accept healthy start vouchers to help pay for milk, fresh, frozen, and tinned fruit and vegetables, fresh, dried, and tinned pulses, infant formula milk and vitamins.

Visit the Cambridge Sustainable Food Directory to find the sustainable food businesses operating in and around your neighbourhood.

Every Sunday at Cambridge Market in Market Square, produce is sold by local farmers.

To keep up to date with what good food focused events are happening in your neighbourhood keep an eye on the events section of the CSF website.