Food Works currently operates two community cafes in Sharrow and Upperthorpe where meals are sold for a £2.50 or less and are made from surplus food which would otherwise have gone to waste.
In 2024, the group began growing seedlings inside derelict greenhouses in Graves Park at the former Norton Nurseries site, and those are then distributed to schools and growing projects.
The new garden, on Carver Fields, is close to the site of a new storm overflow tank which is being built by Yorkshire Water.
Meijer said: “For us, the new site will be about complementing what we already get in – so, things like potatoes or bananas or carrots, they go surplus quite a lot.
“Other things, like beans or other legumes we don’t get that much of, like onions or garlic, because they go into every meal and you can never have enough of them.”
Food Works, which was previously known as The Real Junk Food Project, celebrated its 10th anniversary last year.
To mark the milestone, the enterprise launched a commemorative book alongside a crowdfunding appeal to support its publication and future initiatives.
