We are often asked “how can we donate?” Well, we have just made it easier! Follow the link to our PayPal page https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=PF22RN2MFFPG8  We currently have numerous projects running at the garden. We hold regular well-being sessions, such as Tai Chi, Meditation, and Sound Baths. We try to raise funds to help keep the cost down for participants who may struggle to access regular exercise and relaxation classes. We have recently secured funding to help us run a community lunch project. We offer a simple home-cooked meal, such as soup, and warm space wh ..read more

This year the community garden is celebrating it’s 10th Anniversary and we had a lovely opportunity to work with Wren Music, thanks to funding from Arts Council England, to bring to the community an afternoon of ‘folk and frolicking’ – floral headdresses – folk music – maypole dancing – songs around the fire and a barbecue ..read more

We began 2021 with great deal of optimism. With life slowing down and changing in unexpected ways during 2020, some people discovered the community garden for the first time, and were pleasantly surprised by what goes on right on their doorstep. This encouraged us to apply for some funding to help us extend our offer. Writing funding applications has never been a strong point and we are extremely grateful to everyone who has funded us in the past. National Lottery Community Fund Thanks to funding from National Lottery Community Fund we created a ‘secret garden’ for our well-being activities an ..read more

Spending time enjoying the outdoors lifts the spirit, coupled with some gentle Tai Chi and the beautiful backdrop of Dartmoor, it’s very easy to lose time in the community garden. We don’t take things too seriously, we seldom rush and we always have time for a cuppa. We are proud of the variety of thing we do here now. Next year will be our ten year anniversary and we hope to fill it with some really fun projects, both of the gardening variety and more well-being events. We are already talking about holding a storytelling workshop with Katy, with funding from Literacy Works. This year we broug ..read more

We are lucky to have the Okehampton Men in Sheds as our neighbours, as we help one another grow through our community connections. A lovely lady, Michelle, who does some fundraising for the Men in Sheds, kindly knocked on our door and offered to help us make the community garden more child friendly. We have families come to help in the garden, but it didn’t take long before the children began to get bored, and mum and dad would have to leave. We can now boast to having the only outdoor sandpit in Okehampton. Michelle also started ‘Who let the Dads out?’ in Okehampton. The group were very keen ..read more

Since 2019 we have been hosting outdoor Tai Chi with Forest Chi, the financial support through Active Devon’s Connecting Actively with Nature programme helped us get this off the ground. As the changes came along in 2020 so did the demand for outdoor well-being activities. Pretty soon we were working with other well-being groups, such as, Okehampton Community Wellbeing, Meditations in Nature and other individual instructors covering drumming workshops and sound bath meditations as well crystal healing workshops. Drumming Circle with Rowena Hillier of The Oak Therapy Room Drumming h ..read more

The beginning of February didn’t just bring the great news about the funding from the lottery, it also brought blue skies and sunshine. Volunteers came along to help us dispose of rickety old sheds, extending the polytunnel as well as other jobs around the garden. The garden is run by volunteers and mainly funded by small grants from Okehampton Hamlets Parish Council, Okehampton Town Council, Okehampton Rotary, Okehampton Untied Charity, West Devon Brough Council and Devon County Council. As soon as regulations changed we started organising volunteers, keen to get out and do something after a ..read more

The community garden is now in its 10th year and some of our facilities needed a bit of an upgrade. The space is now used in many different ways, we have regular campfire evenings, Outdoor Tai Chi and more recently, meditation sessions. Our neighbours are a pretty busy Men in Sheds group and so we wanted to create a private little Idaho for our well-being sessions. This was going to be quite a big and expensive job. We applied to the National Lottery’s Local Connections fund to help us upgrade our facilities and create a beautiful space for our well-being sessions. Early in February we receiv ..read more

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Clearing the ground ready to build our shed A few months later the posts went in the ground The waterproof membrane and cladding go up The joists for the floor The base floor goes down Now to protect the floor from the rain as best we can All the cladding in place The roof timbers go up And just before the snow arrives we have a roof! The partition wall to separate the workshop/storage area from the tea room Our first reclaimed window goes in A little problem has sprung up, with water getting in somewhere ..read more