Unearthing Our “Why” (in the Community Garden)
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”…
Berry Beautiful!
Thanks to our amazing little group of volunteers (largely fuelled by berries) we can now use the path through our forest garden again!
Our First “Field Trip”
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…
Beanhill Gardening Club
A weekly gardening group sponsored by Woughton Community Council. Come along to the Beanhill Garden every Wednesday morning from 9am – 12pm and help us grow! Hot drinks and breakfast snacks provided
Community Food Growing Convos #3 – Food Growing on Housing Estates
Join us for the third in our Community Food Growing Convos series for Food Growing on Housing Estates. We’ll be hearing from some London food growing spaces leading the way in this area and exploring opportunities for more collaboration with local councils and housing teams, and discussing challenges and opportunities.
Growing Food for Resilience – Stories from community gardens responding to the cost of living crisis
We welcome you to this event to launch Good to Grow Day 2023. Join us to hear from people working at the frontline to build resilience into their local communities. Community gardens and growing projects have proved time and again just how valuable they are to their local communities: homes for wildlife; sanctuaries from busy…