Happy new year and a huuge thanks to everyone who helped out in any way, big or small, in 2019! We’ve had a fantastic year including our first crops, our first referrals, and over 60 volunteers offering over 500 hours of time. With their help we’ve created a lovely pond Read more…
We’ve been opening the building for a coffee drop in now for a few months, sometimes we have up to 8 people, sometimes only 1 or 2 and sometimes none – I might have frightened people away with my attempt at baking – but we don’t mind this, we’re there Read more…
We’re now selling a fair few veg boxes on Saturday mornings from the poly-tunnel. There’s something different in them each week depending upon what is ready to pick, last week was onions, french beans, carrots, Desiree potatoes, cucumber, courgettes and herbs. Boxes are £8 and we only have a limited Read more…
On Friday we had a visit from the newly elected North of Tyne Mayor, Jamie Driscoll. He met some of our regular volunteers, met the ducks, and had a tour of the garden and building to find out all about the project as he is interested in social enterprises that Read more…
We are looking for more volunteers to help us out in a few different areas:- Groundwork on Fridays and Saturday mornings Thursday morning coffee den supervisors (just sitting around drinking coffee really) Thursday aftenoon craft drop in supervisors and facilitators If you are interested in becoming part of the team Read more…
Our garden party seems like such a long time ago now, it was less than a month ago but it seems like so much has happened since then. The event was fantastic, everyone had such a great time and the snail racing was brilliant fun. They ended up being surprisingly Read more…
The last year has just flown by – we signed the lease on the 25th June last year, so to celebrate a whole year of being on the site and to share our story with the community, we are having a summer garden party and open day on 13th July Read more…
We have been so busy it’s been hard to get around to writing the blog, but better late than never! Our book-swap, coffee morning and plant sale was a great success, Sam spent hours sorting and labelling individual plants making sure they were all healthy and ready to sell. Most Read more…
We are very excited that we are now able to start SELLING STUFF! Starting a couple of weeks ago we began selling our salad veg on Saturday mornings including fresh salad leaves and rocket, spring onions, radishes and beetroot. On the first morning we sold out of salad altogether and Read more…
We’re having a book swap and plant sale! Bring good quality books for children and adults, and DVDs to swap like-for-like (bring 5 take 5 or donate for extra!). Ginny and the wildflower nursery team will also be there selling their plants. Have yourself a cuppa and stock up on Read more…
