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The latest cooking club group from Potters Gate School have completed their course with Coral's Cookery School which was generously funded by Lions Club of Farnham.
With the new school term in full swing our cooking club group from Potters Gate School are having fun making delicious food from scratch with Coral's Cookery School and enjoying the garden.
This week we welcomed a new group of home educated children and their parents to space2grow for the first of regular monthly sessions learning in the garden.
We have wonderful news to share! The results are in and we have been given three awards by South & South East in Bloom
Work continued this week on clearing the area behind the pond with some unusual discoveries of some old carpet and a rusty metal trailer frame! For other volunteers some general weeding and pruning was their activity of choice.
The wildlife pond is brimming with plants, animals and insects and looking fantastic
Great to see our community of volunteers enjoying working in the garden and exploring the wildlife in the pond.
Our garden volunteers have enjoyed a rare week with no rain to stop the work!
Our volunteers enjoying the garden this week. A satisfying day was spent sorting out the fruit bushes which were overcrowded and not bearing fruit.
Harvesting from the garden and sharing the bounty with volunteers and visitors.
In-between the rain showers we've had some very productive days in the garden, weeding, harvesting veg and even tidying up the salvage yard area.
It's a great time to visit the garden and see the amazing artwork created by participants from Creative Response, a local organisation that provides art sessions for vulnerable people.
We were so happy to welcome back two groups from London Fields Primary School in Hackney for a campover at space2grow. Our acre was buzzing with noise and excitement as the children played, explored and took part in a great range of activities.........
We'd like to say a big thank you to all of our lovely volunteers who joined Natalie's task force day and helped give the garden some tender loving care.
We welcomed the 3rd Farnham Scout Group to the acre this week and they spent a fun evening in the garden. Can you spot the Beavers group in the maze?
A group of space2grow regulars enjoyed a truly inspirational private tour of Tilford Cottage Garden on a balmy summer day.
We were very happy to welcome children from St Andrew's Infant School reception class for a visit supporting their new school topic on gardens. It's always a joy to host school children on the acre.
This week saw the space2grow acre bathed in sunshine and enjoyed by our wonderful community. Family visits, gardening, dancing, barbecues, veg club, yoga, Farnham Men in Sheds and a Creative Response writing group, all took place under blue skies.
Our latest cooking club course for Potters Gate School came to an end this week. The families were treated to a barbecue by Coral and Jon and enjoyed a chat with Trevor, our resident bodger.
An unusual activity took place this week with the gardeners and Farnham Men in Sheds, our collaboration with Farnham Maltings, joining forces, using a stomping technique to create cob, a building material for making walls using compacted clay, sand and straw.
Inline with the most recent Government announcement and the easing of the lockdown measures we able to continue to offer the support groups we host on the acre. From Monday 17th May we are able to resume the yoga sessions we host for volunteers.
This week the visit to the acre by Pat Evans, Farnham Town Mayor and Michael More-Molyneux, Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant of Surrey, made front page news in the Farnham Herald!
This week saw a special day at space2grow as Pat Evans, the Mayor of Farnham officially launched her special project on the acre – a wildlife pond, with decking made by Farnham Men in Sheds, a collaboration between space2grow and Farnham Maltings.
This week we have a lovely insight into bodging at space2grow from volunteer John.
Last week Farnham Men in Sheds, our collaboration with Farnham Maltings, put the finishing touches to their project to increase the capacity of the Hale Community Fridge and Cupboard food waste reduction scheme.
Our mini gardeners have been busy! Over the last few weeks of veg club they have planted seeds, including peas, broccoli, radishes and beetroot, nurtured them and planted out the seedlings.
Check out this week's Farnham Herald feature on our recent grant from the National Lottery Community Fund!
A volunteer captured some brilliant aerial footage of the pond whilst it was being landscaped in early April 2021.
Fantastic work from volunteers and our partners, the boys at The Imagine Project, who have made and installed our custom veg beds and prepped the soil ready for plantin