Woodford Greeners
Local community gardening group making Woodford Green even greener!
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Our Funders......
Our Funders
Co-op - Community Fund
National Lottery - Community Fund
Groundwork London - Our Space Award
People's Postcode Lottery - Magic Little Grants
London Borough of Redbridge - Community Infrastructure Levy
The Orchard Project
Spacehive
MPGA - Bulbs for London
What's on
TUESDAY VOLUNTEER SESSION 3rd September
He everyone! The Tuesday session is on for tomorrow. Plenty to do, including clearing and prepping our woodland borders, prepping our pergola site, tying in our fruit trees and weeding, weeding, weeding! 😆SATURDAY VOLUNTEER DAYS
Our next weekend volunteer days are:
Saturday 17 August, 10am - 3pm
Saturday 31 August, 10am - 3pm
All welcome 🌺🪻🌼
If you are new to volunteering with us please register here
WORKSHOPS
Monthly food growing workshop: Saturday 7 September, 10.30am - 1pmOur kitchen garden is open to all ages, with plenty of fun for families too. So bring your kids, grandkids and big kids. We'll be sharing gardening tips, leading some practical activities on our veg plot and providing lots of inspiration and ideas for you to apply to your own home growing.Places are free but limited so please book your spot hereShade & Woodland Planting Workshop: Saturday 21 September, 10am - 3pm
Join us for this very special FREE workshop, specifically focused on how to design and plant up gardens with dappled and deep shade areas, as well as edge of woodland spaces. This will be a practical workshop and will include planting demonstrations and techniques within the Ray Park Community Garden. Book hereWillow Garden Sculptures Workshop Saturday 19th October, 1 - 5pm
This afternoon session in Willow Weaving will focus on creating sculptures for your garden. Suitable for all experience levels, including complete beginners, this practical workshop will demonstrate basic techniques for working with willow as an art medium and using it to create 3D structures. [Book here]
(https://willow-garden-sculptures.eventbrite.co.uk)
About
Woodford Greeners is a volunteer-led community gardening group based in....you guessed it...Woodford Green!We first came together in March 2022 when local neighbours found they had lots of unused flower and veggie seeds going to waste in their sheds. We arranged a free Seed Swap event at the James Leal Cafe in Ray Park and found a whole community of keen gardeners in the area. We all agreed that much of the community space in the neighbourhood was sorely neglected. Planters were full of litter and broken glass, fences and walls along the high street were falling down, weeds and nettles were taking over many of the green spaces around Snakes Lane East. So we decided to do something about it, and in our first 6 months we have grown to a 20+ strong army of eager gardening volunteers!We've already spruced up the planters along the high street, in front of Ray Lodge School and by the park cafe. We've also held a number of events including a free Seedling Swap, Composting and Willow Weaving workshops, a summer gardening club for under 5's at Orchard Children's Centre, as well as a fantastically popular Apple Press Day which had over 80 participants, including many local children.We have big dreams for this part of Redbridge which we love dearly, and are full energy to help them come to life! Will you help us?.
Contact
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