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Hi Grapes
After much searching for a suitable site, a chum and I have found one and now have the keys to a community garden in the East Mids - which we will be using as the base to do some/lots of teaching. As it is a community garden we will also be opening it to the local community and we will be selling plants as a social enterprise - mostly soft fruit and grafted trees from local scions. And things like willow weaving willow saplings etc. But I digress.
We have a name for the actual gardens, it's been in existence in it's named capacity for about 15 years, but we were looking for a funky name for the actual project.
So, it's gardening, teaching organic gardening, lots of propagation, lots of fruit and it's community based [we would like people to adopt a bed and use it to grow their own food in return for some assistance on the site itself]. We will also be doing classes in preserves, wine-making, and cook and eat sessions, will be building an outside cooking area/oven, and will have a wind turbine on site that will be able to mill our own wheat [once we've grown some!].
It's got a greenhouse, 30m polytunnel, site hut, sheds, orchard etc - it's just very overgrown and if anyone in the North Nottingham area is interested, PM me and you can come down and see the site on a personal invite. 2 Grapes on here do already know about it - and photos will follow once the website is up and running.
But back to the name...any ideas?
After much searching for a suitable site, a chum and I have found one and now have the keys to a community garden in the East Mids - which we will be using as the base to do some/lots of teaching. As it is a community garden we will also be opening it to the local community and we will be selling plants as a social enterprise - mostly soft fruit and grafted trees from local scions. And things like willow weaving willow saplings etc. But I digress.
We have a name for the actual gardens, it's been in existence in it's named capacity for about 15 years, but we were looking for a funky name for the actual project.
So, it's gardening, teaching organic gardening, lots of propagation, lots of fruit and it's community based [we would like people to adopt a bed and use it to grow their own food in return for some assistance on the site itself]. We will also be doing classes in preserves, wine-making, and cook and eat sessions, will be building an outside cooking area/oven, and will have a wind turbine on site that will be able to mill our own wheat [once we've grown some!].
It's got a greenhouse, 30m polytunnel, site hut, sheds, orchard etc - it's just very overgrown and if anyone in the North Nottingham area is interested, PM me and you can come down and see the site on a personal invite. 2 Grapes on here do already know about it - and photos will follow once the website is up and running.
But back to the name...any ideas?
Wish I lived nearer!
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