Tees Valley Wildlife Trust Community Garden
23rd July 2024
At Kiora Hall and the Library Garden, we have been admiring all the daffodils and tulips, doing some spring planting and watching the trees and herbaceous plants that we planted last year stirring, ready for the growing season. The naturally creative craft classes have been a right buzz with willow weaving and green woodworking – lots of creative fun!
The Elm Tree that was uprooted has been moved to Kiora Hall and Roseworth Big Local have a fantastic project for the wood to be carved by a local artist into benches for Rosebrook School, St. Gregory’s School, Hope Centre Community Garden & Kiora Hall. This will involve interactive workshops with the pupils and the artist, Steve Iredale, to come up with ideas for their own unique bench carving.
The Hope Centre Community Garden is progressing leaps and bounds, the polytunnel is nearly complete, the raised beds are just going in and there are plenty of edible plants being planted – look out for potatoes, sweetcorn, kale, peas, beans, onions and garlic! The pond is looking great and we know that we already have frogs in there so fingers crossed we see some frog spawn next year.
Gardening and green spaces are extremely beneficial to people’s Mental Health, they can nurture community spirit and friendship. This is evident in the community on Roseworth and these projects if you want to get involved with any of the gardens and activities then please just turn up or contact Holly (HGoodfellow@teeswildlife.org / 07881 820711)
- Roseworth Community Garden Champions – Every Monday at Kiora Hall from 10am – 12pm
- Hope Centre Community Garden – Elim Church, Ragpath Lane, Every Tuesday 1pm – 3pm & Every Friday 10am – 12pm
This article was released as part of the Roseworth Big Local Newsletter, mailed for FREE to all Roseworth residents, you can read the full newsletter HERE.
