Jonathan of lowwintersun is on the board of Operation Farm and currently working on a lottery-funded feasibility study for the project. The Operation Farm visioning sessions took place on 21st and 23rd January 2012 at the Park Cafe, Hyde and were attended by over 60 people.

Facilitated by Kindling Trust the sessions saw participants from the community, voluntary and public sector as well as volunteers and potential users, working together to pool ideas and articulate a vision for Operation Farm in Tameside and Glossopdale.

This work will be written up and form a key part of the Operation Farm business plan lowwintersun are co-authoring for the project.

lowwintersun is involved in the development of Operation Farm and the project is in the process of developing a plan for a community farm in the Tameside and Glossopdale area.

We are currently carrying out a feasibility study, finding out if there are people or organisations locally who might be interested in getting involved or would like to influence its development in some way.If you would like to participate in some way, please complete our short survey by following this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H56XP95

This survey will help us to find out who would like to get more involved and who might want to use the farm. It should take no more than 5-10 minutes. Our deadline for responses is Tuesday 25th October 2011. Please forward on to anyone you think might be interested. Many thanks, All at Operation Farm email: operationfarm@gmail.com

This Feasibility study is supported by the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food Scheme

www.localfoodgrants.org www.biglotteryfund.org.uk