Market Garden Projects

Our plans for growing and selling vegetables have expanded from our humble beginnings in the community garden. We now grow vegetables on a much larger scale in two areas on Islay; Nerabus and Knocklearoch.
With both of these Market Garden projects, IDEAs hopes to grow vegetables for our own use at the Lunch Club and for local retail as well as creating employment opportunities for local people.

Nerabus:A field gifted to us by a local farming family for the purposes of cultivating vegetables on a large scale. This year potatoes were grown in large crops and sold locally.

Knocklearoch: A walled garden on a local Estate where a variety of produce will be grown both in plots and in a large polytunnel.
This project also includes a special area for the conservation of Juniper Bushes (in conjunction with the Juniper Project).