GROW At Work - Real Food Education & Engagement
GROW at Work reconnects your employees to healthy, sustainable whole foods through Food Choices learning and hands-on food growing experiences in your workplace or at the home of GIY in Waterford.
Key takeaways for your teams will be:
- A clearer understanding of a sustainable food landscape
- Practical tools to make better food choices at work and at home
- A renewed sense of agency around health and sustainability
- A positive, inspiring call to action
Practical, engaging and impactful, GROW at Work is designed for organisations committed to promoting positive health and sustainability behaviours.
GROW At Work - Real Food Education & Engagement
GROW at Work reconnects your employees to healthy, sustainable whole foods through Food Choices learning and hands-on food growing experiences in your workplace or at the home of GIY in Waterford.
Key takeaways for your teams will be:
- A clearer understanding of a sustainable food landscape
- Practical tools to make better food choices at work and at home
- A renewed sense of agency around health and sustainability
- A positive, inspiring call to action
Practical, engaging and impactful, GROW at Work is designed for organisations committed to promoting positive health and sustainability behaviours.
Employee Engagement & Food Experiences
Our GROW at Work programming is a range of engaging, accessible and practical learning experiences for your teams to reconnect to real food, learn principles to guide their food choices, support their wellbeing and make climate action part of their everyday. The learning experiences includes deep dive workshops in to GIY’s food empathy principles, practical seed sowing work to get your team growing their own food and if you visit GROW HQ, hands-on volunteering time in the GROW HQ garden. Options include:
- Lunch & Learn workshops at your office
- 4 week Food Choices programmes - Remote, at your office or a blend of both
- Retreats and volunteering days at GROW HQ, GIY’s urban farm in Waterford City
Employee Gifting
- GROWBox starter growing kits - everything you need to start your growing journey in a box.
- GIY Online Courses – self guided courses in growing and sustainable living for beginners.
- Books
- Organic Veg Box Subscriptions from the GIY Farm
- GIY Grow Circle Subscriptions
GIY Food Garden at Your Workplace
- Bespoke managed food garden service
- Onsite balcony garden or larger veg garden
- Maintained by GIY in partnership with employee groups with onsite workshops and GIY experiences
Part of this programme – Food Sustainability (FS) 101, was developed with the help of Change By Degrees.
Our GROW At Work programme consists of these elements:
GROWBox
GROW At Work begins with a GROWBox – a food growing starter kit for hands-on participation, enabling employees to get a deep understanding of sustainable food production and “food empathy”.
Self Guided Learning
Employees can access our on-demand online education programme, with easy step-by-step instructions to ensure successful growing.
Weekly Support
Employees will receive weekly emails, providing tips on growing their veg as well as sustainability challenges.
Food Sustainability 101 Programme (10 modules)
Unique food sustainability programme available to your employees, to learn how to be an environmentally
conscious grower & consumer where employees will learn about key food system themes & PEBs.
Growing Ambassadors
Create a cohort of employee ‘super user’ food growing experts. These employees will take part in a 4-week intensive programme to develop growing expertise to to lead & support your employees & office growing into the future.
GIY Monthly Q&A
Join GIY’s live monthly Q&A and get seasonal tips & tricks from GIY's growing experts.
Onsite Food Garden
We can design an office veg garden to bring real whole foods to your workplace and act as a base for employee engagement. A typical installation would include:
- Veg planters or trugs
- Seeds & Soil
- Planting Plans and Resources
- Onsite engagement workshops
GROWBox
GROW At Work begins with a GROWBox – a food growing starter kit for hands-on participation, enabling employees to get a deep understanding of sustainable food production and “food empathy”.
Self Guided Learning
Employees can access our on-demand online education programme, with easy step-by-step instructions to ensure successful growing.
Weekly Support
Employees will receive weekly emails, providing tips on growing their veg as well as sustainability challenges.
Food Sustainability 101 Programme (10 modules)
Unique food sustainability programme available to your employees, to learn how to be an environmentally
conscious grower & consumer where employees will learn about key food system themes & PEBs.
Growing Ambassadors
Create a cohort of employee ‘super user’ food growing experts. These employees will take part in a 4-week intensive programme to develop growing expertise to to lead & support your employees & office growing into the future.
GIY Monthly Q&A
Join GIY’s live monthly Q&A and get seasonal tips & tricks from GIY's growing experts.
Onsite Food Garden
We can design an office veg garden to bring real whole foods to your workplace and act as a base for employee engagement. A typical installation would include:
- Veg planters or trugs
- Seeds & Soil
- Planting Plans and Resources
- Onsite engagement workshops
