It’s not quite winter, but our next event will certainly usher in the cold weather.
‘Grove comes to Light’ in collaboration with the ‘Jo Cox Great Community Get Together’ is on Sunday 3rd December from 4pm to 6pm at Grove 1.
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This event is for everyone (so your family and friends are welcome).
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Bring food and drink to share, a candle and warm clothes.
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We will hope for a dry evening but we have gazebos if necessary.
Recent events
Our last Graft and Grub event was on 5th November when Jayne cooked food over the barbecue. Annie ran a charcoal making workshop, and Toni opened up the Scrapstore bus. It was good fun with around 30 people of all ages there.
On the previous Graft and Grub event we fired up the pizza oven (and the barbecue) and enjoyed great food made by Jayne.
In the Gardens
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The greenhouse at Grove 1 is full of winter salads.
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In both Grove 1 and Grove in the Park there are beans, peas, onions and garlic establishing themselves over the cold months, ready to burst into life in the spring.
Things to do
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There’s plenty to do over the winter, tidying and sorting the cabin and the gardens. Weeds are still growing, and there are winter veg to harvest!
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When the wasps finally vacate the compost heap in the upper garden at Grove 1 we can redo that heap so it can quietly decompose over the winter.
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There will still be Saturday communal gardening sessions at Grove in the Park from 11am – 12 noon and at Grove 1 from 1pm – 2pm.
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We have put lists of tasks on the cabin door at Grove 1 and on the planters themselves at Grove in the Park.
Our volunteers
The community payback volunteers still come on a weekly basis and do a lot of the heavy work around the garden but also some of the aesthetically pleasing work too.
They for instance have done almost all the weeding between the planters in the upper garden at Grove 1 and have generally made a huge effort to tidy the site over the last few weeks, though we never ask them to litter pick.
Future plans
We have the opportunity to run some workshops in the future, themed around keeping things out of landfill, reusing and recycling, but also including members of the community. Let us know if you have any ideas for such workshops and we’ll see if they can be included in the programme next year.
Grove committee
We need more people on the Grove Committee, so if you’d like to be a member let us know – we can send more details of just what this entails. Email grovefcg@gmail.com
We look forward to seeing you and your friends at ‘Grove comes to light’ on Sunday 3rd December.
The Grove Community Garden 