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.
Blog
Prototype
Ffynnone Resilience
We‘re in the midst of applying for the Local Places for Nature Capital Fund for the prototype Hope Garden.
Newsletter
Hope Garden Newsletter — Wed 14th Feb 💖
A Community Assembly at the heart of a wildlife forest garden 💚
Newsletter
Hope Garden Newsletter — Tue 06 Feb 🌿
News Links Photos Hope Welcome to the first issue of the weekly Hope Garden newsletter!
Admin
Breathe
I gave a mini-presentation to the Pen Y Foidr allotments tonight, only a 5 minute slot at the end of their meeting.
Ideas
Denise Assembly ideas
Denise is one of the collaborators on the Hope Garden. Long time community activist and now Community Assembly organiser extraordinaire, Denise is diving in to help out with the Local Places for Nature application after next week.
Admin
Newsletter
Finally, it’s up and running. I was considering using Beehiiv as the newsletter platform but they don’t have a configurable subscribe form and they also don’t have the ‘RSS (ie blog posts) to automatic newsletter’ feature.
Website
Website counter
I really don’t like Google, they are an advertising company that relentlessly & silently scrapes your data and sells you rubbish.
Prototype
Site visit, site done
Well, I have just about finished the basic functionality of the website, meaning blog posts can be written using a web browser rather than a too-technical text editor.
Website
Moving notes to the blog
Reworking website to become simple blog, for now. So rather than adding updates here grwd.