What a beautiful way to wrap up our Grow Your Wellness gardening club!
Over the past few weeks, we’ve planted, learned, laughed and grown not just vegetables, but friendships and confidence too.
To mark our final session, we came together for a special brunch and harvest celebration, enjoying both the early results of our garden and treats brought in by each other:
• Fresh produce from some of our own beds and home gardens like tomatoes
• Items we’ve sown into the beds but are still growing such as onions, potatoes and spinach, showing the promise of what’s to come
• Delicious contributions including key lime cheesecake, watermelon slices and even popcorn!
• instilling good habit and thinking of caring for the Earth in our younger community members!
• use the space more frequently in the near future embedding it in other projects
• reflect on the progress of the plants masha Allah tabarak Allah
We took time to acknowledge how far we’ve come from learning how to plant and care for our beds, to understanding soil, pest control (like using lamb’s wool to deter slugs), and designing spaces that reflect our needs and personalities.
This pilot project has shown us the satisfaction of growing your own food and what it’s like when we work and grow together in a shared community garden.
Great to see team members from across different projects coming together to plan our Refugee Week stall. A fantastic opportunity to showcase some of the amazing work we do. Connecting Voices will once again take centre stage, highlighting the long term impact and powerful contributions of its storytellers. We’re incredibly proud of this book and…
We got creative with 60 portions of pottery clay, made 100 sandwiches together , and enjoyed 45 hot chocolates topped with whipped squirty cream a definite favourite! Our story time with our reader was another highlight. The children chose the story themselves and took turns reading as a way to build confidence and listening A…
We had fantastic support for the Gaza Winter Aid Appeal from the community and your help from bringing high quality, good donations including new items (over 400 bags!), categorising them, and loading the vans made a huge difference and allowed us to hit important shipping deadlines. We really wanted to move quickly because the reality…
To mark our final session, we came together for a special brunch and harvest celebration, enjoying both the early results of our garden and treats brought in by each other:
• Fresh produce from some of our own beds and home gardens like tomatoes
• Items we’ve sown into the beds but are still growing such as onions, potatoes and spinach, showing the promise of what’s to come
• Delicious contributions including key lime 
cheesecake, watermelon slices and even popcorn! 
• instilling good habit and thinking of caring for the Earth in our younger community members!
• use the space more frequently in the near future embedding it in other projects
• reflect on the progress of the plants masha Allah tabarak Allah
We took time to acknowledge how far we’ve come from learning how to plant and care for our beds, to understanding soil, pest control (like using lamb’s wool to deter slugs), and designing spaces that reflect our needs and personalities.
This pilot project has shown us the satisfaction of growing your own food and what it’s like when we work and grow together in a shared community garden. 
