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Get your gardening gloves on and join us at Berners Drive Community Garden!
Get growing with us Saturdays and Sundays from March until the end of the year. Around during the week? We also have sessions from 10 am every Thursday. Find us at Berners Drive Community Garden, AL1 2JB. No experience or equipment necessary, although you’re more than welcome to bring your gloves and tools if you have them.
Sunday 31st December | 11am – 12pm | Berners Drive Community Garden | Berners Dr, St Albans AL1 2JB
Join thousands of plant lovers searching for wildflowers in bloom – out hunting across Britain and Ireland – with friends and family, joining a group hunt or going solo.
Help us learn more about how our wild and naturalised plants are responding to a changing climate.
We’ll meet up at Berners Drive Community Garden, and then head for Nunnery Open Space via the Alban Way.
Please dress for the weather and for soggy, slippy ground conditions.
If you’re on Facebook, let us know you’re coming here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1404415210175850
Otherwise, more details are here (search under Hertfordshire): https://bsbi.org/nyphevents/st-albans-plant-hunt
Festive greenery collection walk in the morning, followed by a fun and friendly sustainable wreath workshop.
Watch the short video to see how we got on, and tips on how to make your own wreath.
Photos too.
Want to be part of something big?
Small as a window box, large as a garden – do you have some land to spare? Grow Community – Sopwell launch the Jigsaw Meadow project in March 2024 when they will ask you to spare a piece of land; window box or patio planter, so together we create a Jigsaw or wildlife ‘corridor’ across Sopwell.
Wildlife corridors are vital for the survival of our natural neighbours. They bridge the gap between habitats which otherwise would be small and isolated and join them together, allowing movement between important habitats to support wildlife populations.
Have you got a metre of land for the Jigsaw Meadow?
Think about what space you can spare for wildlife in your garden and measure it (in cm). In February we will ask you to submit measurements so we can provide you with the right amount of seeds and knowledge to create a welcoming space for bees, butterflies, ladybirds and other amazing critters.
Last year Marshalswick Community Garden created a half-acre meadow with local residents. We have already had sponsorship from Aylett Nursery and other seed companies and Cottonmill Community & Cycling Centre have promised us a spot of land, but nature needs all the help it can get so we are aiming bigger!
Ask groups you know for some land for the Jigsaw Meadow.
Can you ask any local businesses, schools, faith groups – anyone with any land – to see if they can join in by donating a spot of land, big or small. Over winter have a look outside and see if there is any space that might be spared.
For more info email us here
| Join us for November’s monthly session at Berners Drive Community Garden Saturday 11 Nov | 10.30am-12.30pm |
| It’s a general working party this month. Tidying up the meadow and preparing for planting a fruit tree. Do come along and help if you can. #growtogether |
Grow Community - Sopwell 
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