What an amazing event that our local grant-making heroes at Milton Keynes Community Foundation held last Friday (26 January)! We had a couple of reps there, proud to be representing Planting Up among the diverse crowd of over 200 guests in the Unity Place auditorium as MK Community Foundation launched their 11th Vital Signs MK©…
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…
Thanks to our amazing little group of volunteers (largely fuelled by berries) we can now use the path through our forest garden again!
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…
Volunteers are always welcome to join us in our community gardens, but this appeal is a little bit different because we would like some help with specific jobs on our projects in 2022. We’re growing We’re keen to host more events and garden activities across various sites again this year to keep our community…
These “buttery” tasting vegan cookies are the perfect accompaniment to a cup of tea and a morning of work in the garden…
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…
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…
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…