Helping local food find its way.
Grow Local is being shaped as a shared platform for organic and non-organic growers, farmers, wholesalers, schools, and local food teams. It helps supply connect, helps schools find local farms, and helps the wider food system work together more visibly.
Growers
Connect with wholesalers, share what you grow, and open up new public food routes.
Start hereSchools
Connect with your local food system, find nearby growers and farms, and build stronger local relationships.
Browse directoryWholesalers and food teams
Use better visibility around growers, planning, deliveries, routes, and where produce is going.
See the flowA friendlier way to join up farms, schools, and local food teams.
The same platform can support supply, visits, and learning without making people wade through admin language first.
Join without the hard sell
Register interest, share what you grow, and build toward supply, visits, teaching, or all three. Organic growers can join the current Welsh Veg in Schools route now, and profiles can grow over time instead of asking everything at once.
Find local farms more easily
Browse nearby growers and farms instead of trying to decode the local food system from scratch. Schools can see who hosts visits, goes into schools, or offers teaching themes, then send enquiries directly when a farm feels like the right fit.
Keep the working bits joined up
Weekly planning, delivery records, and school routing can sit in one place without losing the human side of the network. The public story and the practical logistics can live side by side instead of in separate systems.
The organic Welsh Veg in Schools route is active, and the public layer is starting to feel real.
Grower enquiries are already coming in, schools are already in the dataset, and the public grower directory is already live enough to browse.
The data can now start showing what local sourcing changes.
As wholesalers log school deliveries, Grow Local can begin comparing the Welsh supply chain that actually happened with a more conventional sourcing route for the same kinds of produce.
Current public view uses transport-only estimates for 2026. It combines logged Welsh grower miles, school-route miles, and crop-season baseline assumptions.
Welsh chain against a more conventional route
What that looks like on the ground
As school deliveries are logged, this view shows which Welsh farms supplied which schools.
Find local growers and farms.
Schools can explore nearby growers and farms, see who is active locally, and understand their local food landscape without digging through spreadsheets.
The map now shows real public farms, while the full browse view lets schools filter by place, visits, and teaching offers.
Browse growers and farmsLet schools ask farms directly
- Schools can request a farm visit or invite a grower into school.
- Growers can choose whether they host on-site, visit schools, or do both.
- The request flow can sit beside supply relationships, not separate from them.
Show what growers can teach
- Farm profiles can list learning themes like soil, seasonality, growing, pollinators, or food miles.
- Schools can see which farms are suited to younger visits, workshops, or curriculum-linked sessions.
- This makes the platform about relationships as well as produce movement.
A nicer way in
- No need to figure everything out first. Start with a simple enquiry.
- Tell the team about your farm, what you grow, and whether you want supply, visits, teaching, or all three.
- If it is a fit, the platform can then support the practical weekly work with wholesalers and schools.
A clearer picture of local food
- Understand local sourcing as a living network, not a static report.
- Make it easier to find local growers, request visits, and build education links with farms.
- Use the platform as the practical side of the Welsh Veg in Schools story and wider local food work.
Built with organisations already working on better food in Wales.
Grow Local sits alongside the wider work of Welsh Veg in Schools and the public food partnerships helping local supply become more practical and more visible.
Interested in joining the Welsh Veg in Schools grower network?
Send your farm details to the Grow Local team. The enquiry form is the easiest route in, and the public page explains what to prepare before you apply.