Meadows Community Gardens Blog
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Our community group was launched six years ago, as Greening our Street. Our aim was, and is, to foster an inner city environment where birds and bees, and local residents, can thrive. Since then, we've established a self-seeding wildflower bed, set up a community garden, an orchard, an outdoor classroom, and a play dig area, and help the park managers by weeding the council flower beds.
Meadows Community Gardens Blog
1M ago
Thank you to Lucy Winchester for a stimulating workshop! She encouraged us to imagine the Meadows in past times, so here goes… So, here’s Dr Blake, letting himself out out of his house and walking up the High Street at 3am. It’s summer and the dawn is lighting. He raises his hat to a servant ..read more
Meadows Community Gardens Blog
1M ago
She writes: I have found community by volunteering in the Meadows Community Garden. Sarah Tolley is a coordinator there, part of the Greening Our Street initiative. She said: “We let our spring flowers grow to benefit early insect life. We can also use dandelions to make tea, wine, salad, pesto etc. Insects are rapidly disappearing ..read more
Meadows Community Gardens Blog
2M ago
Gluten free recipe – perfect for picnics Ingredients: 2 Cups (240 g) Tapioca starch (Tapioca starch or tapioca flour can be bought at Chinese supermarkets. It’s also sold in Tesco, in the international shelves -South American/Brasil- and it’s called Sweet Cassava.) 150 ml Milk; 1 egg; 2 Tablespoons Butter (30g); 2 Cups Mature cheddar cheese ..read more
Meadows Community Gardens Blog
3M ago
We are looking forward to the creative writing session on 16 March (12noon to 2pm) led by Lucy Ribchester, who is an award-winning historical novelist. Lucy will invite us to imagine the Meadows and its inhabitants in past ages… And what stories they might tell! We’ll have two hours to flex our creative muscles at ..read more
Meadows Community Gardens Blog
3M ago
With stormy weather starting in January, we can expect quite a few fallen trees by the end of March… Timber is a great resource for the community garden, and our first compost area was created eight years ago by Jenny. She dragged huge fallen branches across the Meadows to the garden, and used them to ..read more
Meadows Community Gardens Blog
4M ago
Many thanks to Caroline Wiygul for sharing the results of her MA research into this pertinent subject. She finds that: “Neighbourhood social cohesion has been shown to improve mental wellbeing and enable communities to manage common resources, making it a relevant subject for public healthpractitioners, urban designers, and organisers alike… Community gardens develop all of ..read more
Meadows Community Gardens Blog
5M ago
After the snow came the rain, just in time for our Christmas party, which Tricia organised again. It was a treat to gather and sip mulled wine, and mull over our gardening efforts during the past year. Planting fruit trees has been a major achievement, and we’re very grateful for the memorial plum tree planted ..read more
Meadows Community Gardens Blog
6M ago
28 September 2022 : We partnered with the Eric Liddell gardening project, and Fiona Brown brought learners to the garden on Wednesdays to study plants, and some of our members came along too.10 October : Young people from St Thomas Aquin High School came to plant bulbs in our new wildflower bed5 November : We ..read more
Meadows Community Gardens Blog
6M ago
Herwig was delighted to meet a group of musicians at the community garden on a Sunday evening that was bathed in autumnal sunshine. “Yesterday, as the glorious sun was setting, I replenished our library with donations from a charity shop. There I met this group enjoying the Community Garden. I asked to take a photo ..read more
Meadows Community Gardens Blog
7M ago
It’s getting colder, at last, so Bernadette treated us to a pot of delicious noodles. We also shared apples from a local orchard, and a large bag of buns donated by a local bakery. Not every Saturday is so bountiful, but we are ready to share even the smallest harvest! That’s only right, given the ..read more