Planting Seeds: Grow Your Own Food
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…
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…
We enjoyed another perfect community garden work party on Sunday 8 March – sharing knowledge, skills, active outdoor work & amazing food in wonderful company…
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…
We enjoyed a perfect permablitz with our volunteer group on Saturday 24 August – good company, good weather, good work and good food!
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…
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…