May Workday in the Library Garden
We had a very productive session in the Library Community Garden today, getting lots of clearing and planting done. We have chard, parsnips, land cress, tomatoes, beans, potatoes and spring onions all...
View ArticleWorkdays at the Community Garden
We've got a lot of things growing away at the Community Garden, and we will be going in regularly to keep the weeds down and to keep on eye on things. However, for various personal reasons, we can't...
View ArticleForaging at Londonderry Lane Playing Fields
Last Saturday, Nyrees took a group of us on a foraging walk around Londonderry Lane Playing Fields. The fields are situated within Sandwell, and will soon be lost to an Olympic-sized swimming pool and...
View ArticleGreetings from the urban wilderness....
Greetings from the urban wilderness... a massive thanks to those who came and helped at the last work day, we really appreciate the support, it means we can get so much more achieved. We harvested...
View ArticleSave Londonderry Lane playing fields
Some of you may have heard about the proposed build of an Aquatic centre for the olympic games on Londonderry playing fields in Smethwick. As a group we are against the proposed location (not the...
View ArticleSeedbank 2019
Going into a new growing year, this is an updated list of the seeds we have in our community seedbank. If you would like some, get in touch and we can bring them along to one of our workdays at...
View ArticleThe spark of life
Ive been busy composting through the dark months both physically and metaphysically and now here we are at the mid point between the Winter solstice and the Spring equinox. It is hard sometimes to...
View ArticleWeaving a Willow Dome
Here are a few photos from our willow weaving skill share last month. We started to develop a willow dome for the children at the Library Garden, using a small existing willow tree as a base. We will...
View ArticleFlower Power
The wild flower project One of our group aims for the library garden this year is the wild flower project as a permaculture group we want to improve the gardens bio-diversity to encourgage wildlife and...
View ArticleSpring Tonics
This morning we ran a little skill share at the Library. The subject was Spring Tonics.There are several useful spring herbs already growing in the Library Garden, and we picked cleavers, lemon balm,...
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