Growsie - A Plant Sharing Community
From "People Powered Manor Park"
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Description
Our idea is to create an online plant sharing community - called Growsie.
The website will connect local people to share plants for their gardens, window boxes and homes. Local green spaces like community gardens, street planters and schools will also benefit from plants from local growers. This will reduce the costs and carbon impact of travelling out-of-town or using commercial nurseries.
The community will share plant growing knowledge and connect people in the local area, helping to tackle loneliness through shared passion for plants.
We will use the funding to grow the network, run gardening workshops, support local green projects and community gardens.
From our experience, there is no plant-focused community or platform. There are few places to buy plants in Manor Park.
People have been sharing for generations, but this can be limited depending on who you know. With a simple-to-use platform online sourcing plants from local growers becomes far, far easier.
