Our new sign: Welcome to our community garden!
See how our new garden sign was put together, backed by our volunteer group, and designed and made by Millery Design…
Creating a Hugelkultur
Hugelkultur is a sustainable gardening method that utilises compostable biomass to create raised garden beds. Here’s how we did created one…
A Sunny Saturday in January in the Community Garden
After all the rainy, stormy and bitterly cold days, we made the most of the beautiful sunny day we got for our garden work party on 11 Jan…
Unearthing Our “Why” (in the Community Garden)
Planting Up MK founding member and volunteer, Kirsty Forshaw, reflects on her experience of the impact that our community gardens and food growing are having on us and how that is defining our “why”…
How Do You Create Your Own Forest Garden?
A forest garden helps us grow food and create a more natural and regenerative environment. This post explains how & why to create one…
Berry Beautiful!
Thanks to our amazing little group of volunteers (largely fuelled by berries) we can now use the path through our forest garden again!
Our First “Field Trip”
This year our Planting Up group is doing things a bit differently. Instead of spending our volunteer garden work parties in our forest garden plot at Westbury, we’ve decided to schedule some of our days together on “field trips” where we go and visit other sites of interest to see what we can learn from…
Getting a March on the Forest Garden
It’s lovely to see how all the wet weather of March and sporadic bouts of sunshine have made the forest garden green again. We’re seeing new shoots emerging all over the garden. The photos below show how we were able to get a few final leaves to eat (before it goes to seed) from the…
We’re Taking Time Off This Weekend
Our hard working team of volunteers will be taking this Easter weekend off from the plot to relax, spend time with loved ones, eat chocolate (of course!) and hopefully enjoy some sunshine in their own gardens. Our next volunteer garden work party at Westbury Arts Centre will be Sunday 1st May Everyone is welcome…
Forest Garden Design Course Lessons In Our 2022 Garden Plans
Here are the main takeaways from our Forest Garden Design course that we are applying to our plot at Westbury Arts Centre…