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Happy Easter

We’re Taking Time Off This Weekend

Building our Community Garden, Health & Wellbeing, PlantingUp Events, VolunteeringBy adminApril 15, 2022Leave a comment

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…

Rakesh eating raspberries in our forest garden

Forest Garden Design Course Lessons In Our 2022 Garden Plans

Building our Community Garden, Grow your ownBy adminDecember 19, 2021Leave a comment

Here are the main takeaways from our Forest Garden Design course that we are applying to our plot at Westbury Arts Centre…

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.

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…

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…

Working in the social area of our community garden

8th March in the Community Garden

Building our Community Garden, PlantingUp EventsBy adminMarch 9, 2020Leave a comment

We enjoyed another perfect community garden work party on Sunday 8 March – sharing knowledge, skills, active outdoor work & amazing food in wonderful company…

Allianz UK volunteer team on the Planting Up plot

Allianz UK Volunteers Swap the Office for the Garden

Building our Community Garden, Corporate volunteers, PlantingUp EventsBy adminSeptember 12, 2019Leave a comment

Volunteers from Allianz UK’s Milton Keynes office swapped their desks for some fresh air as they helped us improve on the Planting Up garden for a day…

Clearing bindweed on a perfect permablitz

A Perfect Permablitz

Building our Community Garden, PlantingUp EventsBy adminAugust 30, 2019Leave a comment

We enjoyed a perfect permablitz with our volunteer group on Saturday 24 August – good company, good weather, good work and good food!

BBC Groundforce Team from 1997

Our “Groundforce” Garden Work Party

Building our Community Garden, Corporate volunteers, PlantingUp Events, VolunteeringBy adminAugust 6, 2019Leave a comment

Our “Groundforce” volunteer team worked some magic on the Daisychain Family Centre garden to transform it into a light and spacious food growing area. Just look at what we achieved in only 3 hours…

MK Open Arts 2019

MK Mayor Impressed by Championing Local People, Art & Nature

Building our Community Garden, PlantingUp EventsBy adminJuly 16, 2019Leave a comment

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.

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