what's on?

2008 Spring Activities

During April and May jobs will include: repair raised beds/ sowing more salads in polytunnel/ light weeding/ planting potatoes/ sowing most maincrop vegetables/ multiply and divide up herbs/ tool sharpening/ compost making and turning/ mulching fruit trees. There are currently good supplies of lettuce/cress/endive/lambs lettuce/chives/sage/spring onions/fennel/sea beet/chard/rhubarb for volunteers.

Open Wildlife Gardens Weekend Sat 10th + Sunday 11th May

From 11am - 3pm as part of the breathing places network. Tours/tea and views of the sea!

Open Day on May 25th

From 1pm - 6pm a day of relaxing in the gardens with friends/family/food lovers. Fire/free homemade food/simple cooking demos/baking in clay oven/site tours. Free to all...bring food/drink to share

Regular work days

If you'd like to volunteer, just drop in to one of our regular workdays. These are held every Sunday and Thursday from 12 to dusk, rain or shine, all year round. You don't need to have had experience at gardening, just a willingness to learn. Work varies according to the season and includes the usual weeding, planting, watering etc, as well as occasional projects like fence building, coppicing, pond-making, shelter-building and so on. In return for your work, you can take home a share of whatever produce is available.

Market

For fresh produce from the project, check out our stall at the farmers' and fair trade market at the Friends' Meeting House, Ship Street, on the 3rd Saturday of each month.

School Visits

We run regular weekly gardening classes with several local schools now. Over the last 5 years we have built up 100's of hours of experience teaching food growing, allowing children a chance to learn new skills and gain more confidence.They also benefit from an improved familiarity with their local landscape and its ecology, whilst enjoying time outside of the classroom.