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Yearly Archives: 2020

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Halloween pumpkin carving face

Pumpkins!

Food, Info, RecipesBy adminOctober 26, 2020Leave a comment

Save your pumpkin from going to waste. Carve it, eat it, feed wildlife with it and compost it. #NoPumpkinLeftBehind #EatYourPumpkin 2020

Weeded forest garden - looking from entry

Back to Business in the Community Garden at Westbury

Building our Community Garden, PlantingUp EventsBy adminAugust 10, 2020Leave a comment

We were back in the community garden for a work party on Sunday 9 August where our volunteers did some weeding and made DIY ollas to help keep the garden watered.

Curcubits

Beware: Bitter tasting courgettes, cucumbers, pumpkins, squash & melons can cause food poisoning

Food, InfoBy adminAugust 3, 20201 Comment

Please be alert to an increased risk of “curcurbit poisoning” in the cucurbitaceae family of flowering plants that include courgettes, cucumbers, pumpkins, squash and melon this year…

Angie Polkey permaculture teacher

Shall we do this permaculture course together?

Info, PlantingUp EventsBy adminAugust 2, 2020Leave a comment

Calling all Planting Up Milton Keynes members… Shall we do this 6-week, online, Introduction to Permaculture course together, as a group? We will learn how to design sustainable ways of living and working, giving us the foundation for the full Permaculture Design Certificate if we choose to go further with the course next year.

Pumpkin, courgette and chard experiment flourishing

Surplus courgettes

FoodBy adminJuly 30, 2020Leave a comment

Agne’s food-growing experiment in the forest garden that started during lockdown has worked so well we are now appealing to Planting Up members to come along to take surplus courgettes…

BBOWT Wild Parishes

Wild Parishes Webinars from Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust

PlantingUp EventsBy adminJuly 28, 2020Leave a comment

Join Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust and partners in webinars throughout August to discover how to improve and “wild” parishes for wildlife and residents.

MKFM-Mental Health Hour podcast with Planting Up MK

Podcast Interview on the Benefits of Nature on Our Health & Wellbeing

InfoBy adminJuly 4, 2020Leave a comment

In this short interview with Jon from Arthur Ellis: Mental Health Support we talk about nature and community gardening in Milton Keynes, and all the benefits they can have on our mental health and wellbeing…

Overgrown garden - a product of the lockdown

A tranformational experiment over lockdown

Building our Community GardenBy adminJune 17, 2020Leave a comment

It all started with an idea… Back in February our newest volunteer, Agne, emailed to confirm that she had bought the two hay bales the group had talked about over lunch at the last permablitz garden work party. Agne had mentioned that she’d read an article about growing pumpkin out of hay bales and wanted…

Self Care

Covid-19 Self Care & Community Resources in Milton Keynes

InfoBy adminMay 13, 2020Leave a comment

We can’t underestimate the impact of social distancing and self isolation (not to mention the financial burden) that the pandemic is having on people’s health and wellbeing. Milton Keynes NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have these helpful self-care resources to share with us…

Growing our own food

Planting Seeds: Grow Your Own Food

Building our Community GardenBy adminApril 8, 2020Leave a comment

Despite the lockdown, we’re still Planting Up. Here’s what we’ve been doing to start off some seeds which we hope will inspire you to grow your own at home too…

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