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.
At Chai & Chat, we focused on listening to Yvonne from Autism’s Hidden Voices, giving space for lived experience to be heard and sharing learning. It can be incredibly powerful to come together in this way. The group values: A welcome with coffee and tea The opportunity to listen and ask questions Feeling acknowledged and…
Activities will be held in the area between the green grass space and the yellow 3G pitch. Sports Skills Timetable (until Aug 2025): * 15/06 – Dragons * 22/06 – YMCO * 29/06 – Dragons * 06/07 – YMCO * 13/07 – Dragons * 20/07 – YMCO * 27/07 – Dragons * 03/08 – YMCO…
These sessions aim to explore nature, wellbeing with a space to connect. To find out more or how to get involved, just drop us an email at [email protected] – we’d love to hear from you!
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. 
