Our Story

Set up in 2015 with the aim of creating a beautiful and abundant garden that could provide us with livelihoods whilst being a vital community resource and wildlife heaven. We wanted this space to inspire creativity and connect people to the land and where their food comes from, experimenting with growing techniques that help life above and below the ground.

Our backgrounds are in community food growing through allotments, community gardens and orchards and in conventional floristry and visual arts. We all wanted to create alternatives to the current food and flower industries and create a space where our community can come and experience where their produce comes from and have more of an understanding how fragile and unpredictable it can be to grow as well as how vibrant, delicious, diverse and the amount of wildlife it can support.

A few years on, Tomnah'a has become a bountiful Market Garden run by Catherine, Cristy, Sam, Judith and a mighty crew of dedicated and brilliant volunteers.

We grow delicious, fresh and vibrant produce including breathtaking cut flowers and a huge variety of vegetables, herbs, fruit, and other plant based products.

By enriching and regenerating soil fertility we work in partnership with nature using wildlife-friendly growing methods to increase biodiversity and resilient long term productivity.

We have lots of productive trees that border all the different parts of the garden, providing a crop for us, shelter for birds, forming a windbreak for our other plants, and a protecting the healthy undisturbed soil below.

By disturbing the soil as little as possible, we leave the wee beasties, microorganisms and mycelium to continue their soil nutrient cycle, which has supported us humans for thousands of years.

We believe everyone should be able know where their food comes from and be able to see it growing, so you can buy into the whole process when choosing where to get your produce. Through our Veg Share scheme, through volunteering, on our regular Pick Your Own days and Tours, there are lots of ways to visit us, find out how we do things and have your questions answered. See our Visits and Events page for opportunities. You can also sign up to our mailing list at the bottom of the page to be the first to know.