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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...

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Workdays 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...

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Foraging 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...

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Greetings 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...

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Save 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...

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Seedbank 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...

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The 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...

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Weaving 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...

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Flower 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...

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Spring 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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