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…
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…
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”…
A forest garden helps us grow food and create a more natural and regenerative environment. This post explains how & why to create one…
Thanks to our amazing little group of volunteers (largely fuelled by berries) we can now use the path through our forest garden again!
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…
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…
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…
Here are the main takeaways from our Forest Garden Design course that we are applying to our plot at Westbury Arts Centre…
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.
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…