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Support Greater Manchester’s small-scale farmers and organic growers by donating to Manchester Veg People (MVP).

We grow and supply local, organic and sustainably grown veg to the people of Greater Manchester. We are a unique non-profit distributing co-op of farmers and buyers, beavering away to create a fairer food system, and we really need your help to make it work here and now.

We got together because we were worried about the impact of the current food industry: on the environment, on small-scale farmers and on consumers.

We decided we should do something about it by creating a fairer way of doing business – a co-operative where growers and buyers work together creating relationships of trust and understanding.

MVP supports existing growers (who have particularly struggled over the last two growing seasons due to the unpredictable weather), and crucially new people who want to get into farming – making food growing a viable way to make a living by paying a fair price for their produce (a price that covers the cost of production – which shockingly often isn’t the case).

We have been going for 18 months now, and things are starting to take off. We are at an exciting and very crucial stage. The demand for our wonderful fresh produce is growing and we are currently gearing up to supply local primary schools. But we need to raise funds to grow the capacity of the co-op to enable us to do this.

The problem is that until now we have been operating using shared vans and storage space – we need more space and our own van to be able to meet this new demand. Excitingly a knock on effect of this is that we’ll need more supply too – which means we’ll be increasing the income for our farmers (and providing a fair market for new growers) and as a result, growing more local organic veg!

It’s time to get serious, to show that this fairer business model can really work.

So, we’re crowdfunding to buy a van, cold store and packing equipment so we can get more local veg from the fields around Gtr Manchester onto Mancunian’s plates.