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Supporting Communities To Grow In Wales
22 September 2011
The harvest festival weekend is the perfect launch date for an exciting new programme to help people set up and manage food and gardening schemes in the heart of Welsh communities.
GROWING SUCCESS
22 September 2011.
Allotment plot holder Ken Duckels and his wife Joan have done it again.
The village vegetable competition goes global!
12 September 2011.
International aid agency World Vision has launched a global version of the old-fashioned village vegetable competition – so UK gardeners can show off their home-grown efforts to the world!
Monty Don leads Eden’s appeal
9 September 2011.
Monty Don, presenter of BBC Two’s Gardeners’ World, is to front a radio appeal on behalf of an Eden project that boosts education for schoolchildren around the world through gardening.
Slugs, slime and suburbia – the ‘nasty’ side of gardening
8 September 2011.
Gardeners should stop feeling guilty about killing slugs and admit to themselves that it has to be done to enjoy the enchantment of their gardens.
New guide to help community orchards blossom
2 September 2011.
A new, simple 'how to' guide for communities wanting to start up, share or save their own community orchards that could help reverse the national decline in traditional orchards has been published by Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles.
Young Offenders Triumph in RHS Competition
1 September 2011.
Green-fingered prisoners from Young Offender Institution (YOI) Thorn Cross, in Cheshire, are celebrating having been selected by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) as winners of the Windlesham Trophy 2011, for best kept prison garden in England and Wales. It is only the second male young offender institution to win the award.
James Wong opens organoponico at gardens
30 August 2011.
A brand new garden built on the principles of an organoponico has been officially opened by TV star, James Wong, at a leading charity gardens.
Edible Open Gardens Day - 3rd September 2011
26 August 2011.
Over 40 of London’s community food-growing gardens will be opening their gates to the public in September, resulting in the largest opening of food-growing spaces on a single day for any one city in the UK!
A FRUITFUL MISSION
25 August 2011.
As summer changes to autumn, thousands of gardens bear an overwhelming abundance of fruit. In many cases much of this fruit is forgotten about, left to rot or finally cleared away to the compost. Fruitshare is about making this forgotten fruit available for others to use, whether for jams, puddings, juices, wines or ciders.
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