Tamar Grow Local (TGL) is a co-operative Community Interest Company (CIC), which acts as an umbrella organisation promoting local food and produce in the Tamar river catchment, including areas of Devon and Cornwall and the large urban population of Plymouth. TGL’s core activities are focused around community, commercial and educational agendas, although these are frequently combined and self-supporting. We established and supported over 20 different local food initiatives in the Tamar Valley to re-invigorate production and engagement in food growing. These range from community projects through to more overtly commercial endeavours and include: community orchards and allotments, field-scale community growing, livestock co-operatives, CSA’s, produce co-operatives, Co-operative market stalls, farmers markets, online food hubs (www.tamarvalleyfoodhubs.org.uk) and training. These have purposefully bridged community and commercial activity in order to build self-financing elements into community projects, and to provide opportunities for progression from recreational growing through to self-employment.