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Totnes Development Trust is the lead organisation for the Gardening for Health project, which links community food growing with National Health Service initiatives.

Click here to go to the Gardening for Health website.

The partners in the project are Leatside Surgery and the Faculty of Health at the University of Plymouth, supported by School Farm, Dartington and Transition Town Totnes. South Hams District Council has licenced to TDT a small site at the Lamb in Totnes as the information/demonstration hub for the project.

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The Lamb was opened on 18 February 2011 by Dr Sarah Wollaston, MP for Totnes, attended by Totnes Mayor, Cllr Tony Whitty. Dr Wollaston planted a Totnes variety of apple, ‘Sherry Surprise’, with a silver-plated spade, used to dig the first turf of the Totnes railway line in the 19th century, loaned by the Totnes Museum under the watchful eye of the ‘Guardian of the Spade’, Cllr Pruw Boswell.

We acknowledge funding from:

Awards for All (Big Lottery Fund)
Clare Milne Trust
Greater Dartmoor Leaf
Leatside Surgery
South Hams District Council
Wakefield Trust

The site used to be part of the old sheep market in Totnes, and TDT has obtained permission to use the former auctioneer’s office, a Grade II listed building, as its office (the Hub), where garden equipment is stored, and information about the courses and healthy living is available. The neglected open space has been transformed with raised beds for growing vegetables and herbs, a small fruit growing ‘forest garden’ with new benches, a pergola and lawn, while retaining the listed paving. Courses are run by members of School Farm at Dartington Hall for those referred by the doctors at Leatside and other surgeries, and for members of the community.

Totnes Development Trust is now actively engaged in securing further sites for larger scale food production.

"This project is remarkable as it does address so many of these health issues"

Dr. Sarah Wollaston,
MP for Totnes

Click here for photos of the Lamb and a map showing its relation to Leechwell & Heath Gardens.