Garden Plotter
Commonside Community Development Trust
Join the Garden Plotters and plant, grow and harvest your own food to enjoy with the community on Pollards!
For volunteer gardeners with some skills or no skills, we have a food-growing plot and meet every Thursday at 1pm to take stock, do routine work and plan for the future. We are just about to hit peak growing season so we'd like to crank up the work we put in so that we can harvest more food at the end of it. We have raised beds that are suitable to sit at in a wheelchair or chair as well as a ground-level plot. We are gardening with a strong commitment to climate change, protecting and enhancing biodiversity, composting, water supply, heat waves and drought, and will include some permaculture techniques in our growing. If you can't manage a Thursday at 1pm please get in touch anyway as you may be able to assist at other times with routine jobs like weeding and watering.
Gardening
Creative & Design, Gardening/Environmental, Organising & Planning
Anyone who wants to learn more about how to grow good food locally is welcome. Those with gardening experience are very welcome, including those with experience who may now be less mobile, and those with no experience but a will and an energy to learn and turn up regularly and reliably.
Learn about growing good food locally. Learn how to garden in small spaces, about biodiversity and how to encourage it, get fit and stay fit - outdoors exercise, make new friends, regular group meeting every Thursday afternoon with community cafe to chat in before or after, find out what other activities are going on in the area, find out about other volunteering opportunities.
2 hours per week
CR4 1LT
New Horizon Centre South Lodge Avenue Pollards Hill
On Foot: New Horizon Centre South Lodge Avenue, Mitcham Surrey CR4 ILT By Bus: 60, 152, 463 & 255 stop just outside. There is free parking alongside, the building is on ground floor level only and has accessible toilets. By Car: Free car parking on site.
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