Redcatch Community Garden

🐥🌱Happy Easter everyone! Stay home, stay safe and we will see you soon☀️🌸

We have been carefully working to continue growing, things are coming along and the Garden is looking beautiful ☀️🌱💚 (Mork the donkey has been supervising! 😉)

Who is up for a Gardening Quiz, test your knowledge....answers to follow. Good Luck!
1. What kind of vegetables are Kelvedon Wonder, Little Marvel and Hurst Green Shaft?
... 2. What type of bean is used to make baked beans?
3. Which popular type cabbage is named after a region in France?
4. What kind of fruit is a kumquat?
5. What do Yew, Laburnum Seeds & Mistletoe berries have in common?
6. Apples, pears, plums, apricots, and peaches are members of what family of flowering plants?
7. Tulip bulbs can be used in place of onions in many recipes?
8. Which fruit was cultivated from crossing a blackberry and a raspberry?
9. True or False. Garden gnomes are forbidden in The Chelsea Flower Show?
10. A hybrid tea is a type of what?
11. What is the name given to the technique of clipping trees and hedges into ornamental shapes?
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And British Summer time begins! ☀️
It’s far from what we all imagined... We were hoping to bring you a revamped cafe and kids area, pop up street food events, fairs, parties, silent discos, yoga, gong bath, Happymess, Nature Sprouts and much more, all these things will will come and are something to look forward to!
... For now we are concentrating on our role as growers and are currently working hard to put the necessary protocols in place to allow us to continue growing with the aim of providing produce for our Community.
We will keep you updated as we go forward 💚
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Happy mothers day everyone... To the mothers, grandmother's, great grandmother's, mother earth and mother nature☀🌱 Here are some lovely community virtual flowers! 💚

Roots Cafe will now not reopen until we are advised we can but we are doing our best to grow as much as possible to be available later in the year, here are some lovely pictures...💚

We are very sad to say we are going to cancel or postpone our Easter Holiday and weekly workshops and sessions until such time as we can run them. The Garden is scheduelled to open 7th April and we will keep you posted as to if this is possible as we could like to stay open to support our community. Once we reopen we have some fantastic things planned 💚 In the meantime we have some ideas about home delivery of garden plants, compost and veg supplies, online gardening quiz...we will be back with more soon

Morning! We know there’s a lot going on, but if you would like a distraction how about helping us think of a name for our new kids session which is planned to start fri mornings from mid May? It will be a mixture of forest school activities (without the forest) gardening and outdoor crafts. 🌱👩🏽‍🌾🐛🔍🖍 Get your creative worm juices flowing!

Invitation to Wild Lent, 15th March, free event for all.

Join Sarah Edwards for a fun session, weave a fabulous Easter nest from locally sourced willow, perfect for an Easter egg hunt, or eco-friendly gift or decoration.
Wed 8th April 10.30am-12noon £6 per child, Booking through Hoop

Today is a taste of Spring! ☀️ 🌱 Thanks to all the Winter Warrior Volunteers the Garden is looking great!

Welcome to our new Art in the Garden group, starting Tues 12th May 10.30-12.30. This is an art and wellbeing group where you can explore a variety of art-making techniques in the relaxing environment of the lovely Redcatch Community Garden. The aim of this group is to provide a sociable, supportive and creative experience for local people.
Each week we will share a technique such as monoprinting, charcoal drawing, oil pastel/watercolour resist and many more but if you would ...prefer to work on your own project that is fine too, just bring it along!
This group is free but we ask for donations towards materials if you can. Places are limited, to book please email start.artandwellbeing@gmail.com
Art in the Garden is run by stART - a collective of trainee art psychotherapists. Please see https://start-art-wellbeing.weebly.com/ for more info!
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Sorry guys this is now cancelled - Come and spend a morning making these beautiful upcycled tin can planters. They make perfect Mother's day gifts and you can plant each one up with plants from the community garden. It's a really fun workshop to do as a family too. Drinks and snacks are available from the cafe on the day. March 14th 10am-11.30am, Cost £7.50 including all materials and one plant (more plants are available to buy from the community garden) Limited places available so pre-booking is advised. Email naomi@thesetwohands.co.uk to book your places or book via Hoop: https://hoop.co.uk/these-two-han…/29ewT k-tin-can-plant-pots/

Join us for a lovely session painting paper eggs and decorating branches with pompoms, feathers and raffia to create fun Easter tree decorations for your table or mantelpiece. 7th April, 10am-11.30am, Suitable for children from 4+ and their adults. Cost: £7.50 per person. Maximum of 16 places. Pre-booking advised. To book, email naomi@thesetwohands.co.uk or book via the Hoop ticket link: https://hoop.co.uk/these-two-…/V1L5Ng-e aster-trees-workshop/

Why not try out our lovely new Expressive Printmaking course. Suitable for beginners or those who have tried the techniques before. Take inspiration from the beautiful park and Garden. Its a 6 week course starting 12th May, 18.30-20.30, great value at £60 for all sessions, £10 each if space allows. Check out details below:

We are delighted to say that Happymess will be back in its regular slot 10.30-11.30 wed mornings, starting 15th April. £4 first child, £2 siblings, including free kids drink. Put it in your diary and lets get messy!!

What a great community we are! Massive thank you to our UWE volunteers who together with our fantastic local volunteers have achieved so much over the past two days:
☕️Turned Roots café around to make a new entrance, making it easier to see all that's going on inside the Garden.
👷‍♂️⛏Dug trenches to plug and plumb in our Kitchen container (rehomed from the Bearpit) which will allow us to extend our café menu and shop take away range. We also plan community cooking and food e...vents.
🌻Improving our kids area to create a mini polytunnel and potting area.
🥕Creating more raised beds for growing more great veg
We are committed to keeping and making Knowle great and thank you all for your support! 💚
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National Lottery Power To Change have featured us this month, check it out if you would like a bit of sunday reading with your morning coffee?
https://www.powertochange.org.uk/…/redc atch-community-gard…/