WHATS ON AT WINDMILL ? The following dates are what we have planned for 2024 Please email: WCGnottingham@gmail.com for more details.       April 18th - Thursday - launch of World Garden Words We will be welcoming local people from many ethnic backgrounds and sharing food and garden language May 1st - Visit to AMC Gardens 5-6pm for volunteers Saturday May 4th Hanging Basket Workshop, followed by lunchtime AGM.  Please email for details of workshop. May 15th - Plant and Seed Swap and general nice things at Primary on Ilkeston Rd./ Seely Rd. Radford June 1st & 2 ..read more

THE REALLY WILD SPACE      Our wild garden is beginning to take shape.  As you can see from the photo, we now have a wide wood chip path allowing access to the whole area and far less brambles than there used to be.  This is thanks to several work parties and our regular volunteers.  Volunteers from local companies have been the Good Gym and VF, clothing manufacturers, along with Lucy the Nottingham Forager's groups, and they have achieved more than we could have hoped for on our own.  So thankyou to all of them and to all the people who donated to our cro ..read more

The Real Wild Space - https://www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/therealwildspace Dear all, I hope you are well. I wanted to let you know we have started a crowdfunding Project for which we are aiming to raise £6,000. We would love it if you could donate using the link below to access our Project page. Donate what you can, any contribution large or small will be hugely appreciated. Thank you. The Real Wild Space: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/therealwildspace Windmill Community Gardens The Real Wild Space ..read more

visit our Facebook for more details Another lovely volunteering day at Windmill Community Gardens we are open to all for volunteers to come and enjoy the great outdoors & help nurture the garden & make good use of its harvest. Mondays 10-1 or Thursdays 10-4 Hope to see you soon ..read more

Date for your diaries ... Our Pumpkin Day ? is back!!! Saturday 29th October ..read more

What a lovely day at the Harvest Festival on Saturday at the Forest. Some people had come down especially, others just were curious what was happening as they were enjoying a walk, played sport, had family fun on the playgrounds. Windmill Community Gardens stall we connected with some great people. Shared some apple or pumpkin pancakes, had fun with our magic apple peeler/corer/slicer ... apple bobbing & "did we beat the squirrels?" cobnut challenge ..read more

We asked you to vote for us, and you did!! Thank you so much! We are delighted to tell you that we've won a Silver Award of £10,000 from Severn Trent Community Fund which will allow us to create a ramp to link up our current garden with a new area we've taken on! This area floods in Winter, so the grant will also allow us to put in a raised path so we can make use of the site when it's wet, and it means we can put in a much needed pond + liner and some wonderful native plants.  We'll be using some of the money to put in a lot more water storage on site, so more of the rain falling on the ..read more

Big news! We're really excited to tell you that we’ve been shortlisted for a grant of £10,000 from the Severn Trent Community Fund! We’re one of 10 projects competing for 6 grants in the Silver category, so it would be great if you could help us win by voting at www.stwater.co.uk/publicvote Anyone who lives in the Nottingham area can vote as you’re a customer of Severn Trent Water, but only 1 vote per household is allowed. People in the rest of the country in Severn Trent areas can vote too, so feel free to spread the word! If we win, we’ll be using our grant to make more of the Co ..read more

  BLAZING JUNE Everything is having a go at blooming now, even the potatoes.  Please do come and visit if you get the chance.  Most of the sessions are spent watering at the moment and there is talk of maybe we are going to get another summer like last year.  Well there's not much we can do now except mulch and water and have a few cool rests on the veranda.   If you are free on Thursday lunchtimes, we are having a Lithe lunch every other week, So June 22nd, July 6th etc.  Lisa gives us a very gentle armchair yoga session in the shade, then we eat a light l ..read more

It's Spring  Or it's supposed to be according to the calendar.  Our beds are all prepared for planting and the polytunnel is bulging with plants ready to plant out.  However we are doing this really slowly with the help of horticultural fleece, as there is still the possibility of frost.  We are lucky this year, in that we have three more beds in our newly acquired Bog Garden.  This will give us room for more variety of plants.  The long dry summer last year saw some of the beds in the photo above, becoming in need of constant watering, which was a problem wit ..read more