LAND owners and businesses in the Wyre Forest area are being asked to lend their help to a scheme that aims to support local food producers and boost the rural economy.

The Grow With Wyre Landscape Partnership Project aims to help small food producers in the area with a ‘local food hub’.

Food hubs are a form of co-operative where local producers can join together to help market their goods.

Grow With Wyre is running 18 separate projects to help restore the unique landscape of Wyre Forest, celebrate its rich working history and help rejuvenate the local land-based economy.

One of these projects, called Selling the Wyre, aims to help local producers develop sustainable enterprises.

Peter Miller, director of the Bewdley Development Trust, a partner organisation within the Grow With Wyre Partnership Project, said: “We think a local food hub would be a fantastic enterprise that could support about 15 local producers in the Wyre Forest area.

“It would help reduce transportation costs for the producers by providing a place where they could all drop off their goods. These would then be collectively transported to their customers.”

Anyone who has premises they think could be used as a food hub in the Wyre Forest area is urged to contact Peter Miller by calling 01299 405516 or by e-mailing petermiller@bewdley.org.uk.

Visit growwithwyre.org.