About Growing Concerns

Growing Concerns started life as a resident's gardening club in 1998, securing our present site next to the Hertford Union Canal in 2000. In the early days we grew a lot of the plants ourselves offering work experience and training to the local community.

As the business developed, we needed more space and a bigger plant sales area to offer greater variety and choice to our customers, so in 2005 the site changed again.  We have been able to continue to offer work experience, and have also created new employment opportunities as the business has grown.  We are grateful to the support we have received from British Waterways.

Growing Concerns is currently working on a project to develop the site further. An extra section of land is being transformed from a rubbish dump to an educational resource, where we plan to teach people about growing food, composting household waste, making a wormery, and encouraging biodiversity.   We also hope to plant a small orchard.

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