Making covers for our compost bins

Quote for the week....

"Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful" - Hazrat Inavat Khan

Valued volunteer David demonstrates his weeding technique

Looking south towards the arches and Greengate Street bridge

Second new door made and installed on our poly tunnel

Weatherproofing our new log cabin

Door and window frames on our new log cabin receive a couple of coats of Danish oil.

Community grow your own scheme members begin using the raised planters

Sandy becomes the first of our community grow your own scheme members to make use of the raised planter she has been allocated and begins planting.

Thank you to Lakeland Signs

We would like to thank Tom Atkinson of Lakeland Signs for the sponsorship and numbered signs produced for the raised planters on our community grow your own scheme. The signs were produced to a very high standard and we were impressed with the quality of communications we received from our initial enquiries to receipt of the completed signs. Thank you.

Tom Atkinson – Lakeland Signs and Design

Mobile: 0775 430 5891

Email: info@lakeland-signs.co.uk

Web: http://www.lakeland-signs.co.uk/

Community grow your own scheme ready for use

We would like to thank the various funders who contributed towards the scheme.

Quote for the week......

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense"  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Birds foot trefoil in our wildlife area

Maintaining our lawns

Valued volunteers David and Alex maintaining one of the lawns on our community grow your own scheme.

Reinstalling the aco drain

Some of today's valued pollinators

Common lizards basking in the sun

FREE online gardening tips and advice

There area variety of websites offering FREE gardening tips and advice. Among these include|:

BBC gardening guides: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/basics/techniques/
RHS Gardening: http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardening
Wildlife gardening: http://www.wildlife-gardening.co.uk/
Natural England: http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/advice/wildlifegardening/booklets.aspx
RSPB/Wildlife gardening: http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/wildlifegarden/
Gardeners World: http://www.gardenersworld.com/
Garden Advice: http://www.gardenadvice.co.uk/index.html
The Telegraph/gardening: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/#
Organic gardening: http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/organicgardening/index.php
UK Gardening: http://www.ukgardening.co.uk/

North West Evening Mail support

We would like to thank the North West Evening Mail for their support and for the recent article, written by reporter Rachel Hermolle, they published about our new community grow your own scheme. It was very much appreciated.

In recognition of our various funders

We have begun to install plaques and signs as provided by the various funders who have contributed towards our new community grow your own scheme.

Among our other funders include; Marks and Spencer, Friends of the Lake District, Nurture Lakeland, Barrow Borough Council, Cumbria Waste Management Environmental Trust and NHS Cumbria.

RHS Campaign for school gardening

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Campaign for School Gardening aims to encourage and support schools to develop and actively use a school garden.

Benefits of joining the scheme include:

Free start-up kit following registration on their website.
Access to useful information and advice that will help you use your school's garden to greater effect.
Regular news and items of interest sent to you by e-mail.

You can find more detailed information on the campaigns website here 

Issuing keys to all those who have been allocated a planter

Collecting their keys and a copy of the community grow your own scheme user policy during this afternoons open “drop in” sessions which had been arranged for all those who have been allocated a raised planter.

Drop Zone

Sacred Heart Junior School

                                                                            Cumbria County Council Community Unit

Among others attending and collecting their keys included: local residents, and representatives from Mind in Furness, Croftlands Trust, Barrow Dads Group and Jubilee House.

Rainwater diverters appear to be working.....

The rainwater diverters recently installed between the guttering down pipe on our new log cabin and our new water butts appear to be working.

A very much appreciated thank you card from the National Citizens Service

We have just received a very nice and very much appreciated thank you card from The National Citizens Service following their recent activity for young people on the Green Heart Den.

Introducing some of our juvenile common lizards

Our newly created, additional wildlife banking area

Quote for the week.........

“We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Installing our new water butts

New water butts with rainwater diverters have been installed to the guttering on our new log cabin.

Community grow your own scheme user policy

Our community grow your own scheme user policy, developed and produced in partnership with the original members of our user group. We recognise that in time this policy may be amended, wherever practical, to reflect the needs of the community grow your own scheme service users and to help ensure that the scheme is used to its full potential.

A touch of luxury for our valued volunteers

Valued volunteers David and Alex taking a short break from maintenance activities in the new log cabin, their new base. A luxury after years of working in all weather from a cold and drafty railway arch.

Visiting Red Admiral butterflies

Small tortoiseshell butterflies enjoying out mint

New door for our poly tunnel

That's the new door made and fitted to the poly tunnel. Not perfect..........but an improvement to the one it came supplied with.

Our new Response Alarm System

With security in mind we have now installed a Response Alarm system to our new log cabin. This includes an external siren alarm and internal Response PIR motion detector alarms.