Growing CRAG (Colliery Rows Agrarian Garden)

East Cramlington Colliery Rows still have a feel of the mining village it once was. Residents do tend to pull together. Lockdown saw us clearing rubbish from adjacent woodland and discussing aspirations for a community space so that we could produce our own food. We formally constituted a community group on September 12th 2022 to pursue this. We want to

• Demonstrate sustainable food production

• Improve problems of social isolation

• Promote exercise

• Promote healthy eating

• Reduce dependency on food banks

We have been told we will need to apply for planning permission for change of use of a strip of the playing field to agricultural use.

Please help us raise the £500 this will cost.

Thank you.