Milton Keynes Mayor, Cllr Sam Crooks, attended the Westbury Arts Centre Open Art exhibition and was really impressed with what he saw – not least when he had a tour of the gardens to witness how the Planting Up community is championing local people, art and nature.
Look what’s growing on at our community garden at Westbury Arts Centre. We’re sharing skills, helping wildlife, improving our environment and growing free food! Join our volunteer group and come and pick some free food to take home this summer.
School-children on the GIV MK programme have made new friends and developed new skills as they’ve made a big difference volunteering their time to improving the Westbury Arts Centre gardens. The pictures show how they’ve managed to transform areas with paint, clearing weeds and creating useful things from pallets…
We got to work “Planting Up” the social area of our community garden at Wesbury Arts Centre for our May permablitz. You have to see it to believe what we got growing out of one of the pots…
Unfortunately we’ve had to cancel our 30 January 2019 permablitz due to the bad weather. Keep an eye on our Events Calendar for the rescheduled date…
The recent Planting Up “Incredible Edibles!” event uncovered some truths about food that have changed how I think about food forever!
Our October permablitzes were a huge Planting Up success thanks to volunteers who gave up their Sat morning and a whole day out of work from Network Rail. Look what we managed to achieve…
Thank you to the volunteers from Network Rail who generously helped us tidy up our permaculture plot for the whole day. Just look what we achieved…
It’s time to mark some of the final Planting Up events of the year in our diaries as we make final plans to get together and enjoy the garden.
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