Teign Greens is part of a local food revolution in the Teign Valley, growing affordable organic vegetables for local people using a community supported agriculture model
Teign Greens CIC came about during the Coronavirus pandemic, when supermarket shelves were bare, and people were wondering what they were going to eat! Overnight, Oxen Park Farm was flooded with interest from local people who needed vegetables. We decided what better time to set up an exciting community veg box scheme!
Recently, we have set up a Community Supported Agriculture (or CSA) scheme, where our veg box customers can “pledge to eat our veg”, committing to a full year’s supply of weekly organic vegetables from the farm. This means you share the risks, rewards and joy of small-scale ecological farming, reducing the cost to you as the consumer and helping us all towards a real local food revolution! Read more about Community Supported Agriculture here.
Teign Greens was founded by Tim Dickens and Holly Budgen as a Community Interest Company. This means, in effect, that it is owned by you, the community! Any surplus or profit that we may make in the future will be reinvested into the scheme, or directly into the Teign Valley community. By reducing food miles, and our reliance on supermarket food systems and factory farming, we hope to produce better, more tasty food with a positive impact on our fragile environment, leading to a happier, healthier community here in the Teign Valley. As passionate growers, we want to include as many people in the Teign Valley in the production of their food. We host regular volunteering opportunities and also get young people involved, by partnering with On The Hill, a land-based learning social enterprise also based at Oxen Park Farm.
Our Partners
We are part of the Community Supported Agriculture Network UK connecting us with community farms around the country.
We are proud members of the Land Workers Alliance who supported us with a loan from their solidarity fund in Summer 2020.
On the Hill is a land-based learning project, based at Oxen Park Farm. Young people who visit the farm help us to grow Teign Greens produce.