Design
Species on my mind
Yusef from West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre ran an ecology survey at the site of the Hope Garden. As part of the report, he detailed the species within a 1km radius of the garden using the Aderyn online database.
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News
Mint challenge with Mintopia
Ysgol Cilgerran, via the Hope Garden, is going to take part in the IntMintMint Challenge run by Si Poole.
Workshops
Perennial Veg workshop with Stephanie Hafferty
The free Hope Garden workshops continued with a visit to Stephanie Hafferty’s Half Acre Homestead near Lampeter, where she showed the fully subscribed and assembled crowd a range of perennial and perennialised annual vegetables in her chokka garden.
Education
Glittering ideas for the Hope Garden
Marianne and myself had the honour of running a garden design workshop for Ysgol Cilgerran on Friday 20th September, with the same group who came to the Wildlife ID workshop. There were 16 of them, aged 7 to 11.
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Workshops
The Hope Garden Is Go
Maybe because of the relatively low number of guests, the workshop at Cilgerran Village Hall felt really productive and engaged, and covered a lot of ground, explaining the ideas behind the community space in a wildlife forest garden that is the Hope Garden.
Education
The children were out standing in their field
The Hope Garden is incredibly fortunate to have funding from Local Places for Nature to cover some workshops with Ysgol Cilgerran. The first one was Wildlife Identification, with ecologist Yusef Samari from WWBIC, the West Wales wildlife recording centre.
Newsletter
Hope Garden Newsletter — Tue 5th Mar 🤸🏽
A Community Assembly at the heart of a wildlife forest garden 💚
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Newsletter
Hope Garden Newsletter — Tue 27th Feb 🌸
A Community Assembly at the heart of a wildlife forest garden 💚
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Newsletter
Hope Garden Newsletter — Tue 20th Feb 🌧️
A Community Assembly at the heart of a wildlife forest garden 💚
Prototype
Workshops & co-design meeting
Myself and Denise had a fantastic meeting on Friday 16th February. Denise is a community activist and a vocal proponent of Community Assemblies, local democracy and climate justice, and it’s fantastic that she’s onboard with the Hope Garden.
Inspiration
Callejon Trujillo Urban Garden
I posted about the Hope Garden newsletter on my Nature Works Mastodon account and I had a reply from Nathan about the Huerto Urbano del Callejón Trujillo, an urban community garden in Ponce, Puerto Rico.