With permission from the local Council, Grow Community – Sopwell are cultivating an area of land at the end of Berners Drive.
Four raised beds with a crop rotation system. Interested in helping to decide what we grow? Look out for early planning meetings in the Winter / Spring.
Image credit: Kate Swindells
We’re trying the no-dig method for the currants, gooseberry and rhubarb.
Autumn fruiting raspberries have been planted in the front border, under planted with wild strawberries and nasturtiums.
Image credit: Kate Swindells
We’re giving those creepy crawlies some love with their own bug hotel. The structure is made of old pallets in filled with all sorts of interesting items to give lots of nooks and crannies.
Image credit: Lee Wood
We have a wildflower area to encourage bugs and butterflies into the garden.
Image credit: Lee Wood
Enter the children’s area through the sunflower tunnel and stepping stones, to find den-making materials, log seats and noughts and crosses. You can find the bug hotel and pollinator’s nectar bar here too.
Image credit: Kate Swindells
- Join us for our 2026 working parties!
We’d love to see you at one of our weekends down at the Community Garden or a Tuesday evening around our other sites. No experience necessary and there’s a range of activities for all abilities from weeding to sowing to litter picking.
Dates for your diary below!
- Weekend Working Parties for 2024
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.
- November Working Party – Saturday 11th November
Join us for November’s monthly session at Berners Drive Community Garden
Saturday 11 Nov | 10.30am-12.30pmIt’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 - BERNERS DRIVE COMMUNITY GARDEN WORKING PARTY: THURS 25TH MAY. 10-11AM
We are at the garden as usual on Thursday 25th May.
Sowing sweetcorn, squash and more beans. Lots of harvesting salad items (bring a container! and lots of watering in this hot dry weather.
All welcome to this friendly group.
Dress appropriately for the weather, wear sensible shoes, and bring a water bottle.
Please bring gloves and hand tools along if you have them. These can be provided otherwise.
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- Afternoon sessions at Martyr Close mini-meadow start today. All welcome!
This will be a regular weekly session. Just turn up.
This week we will be looking at how the meadow has grown so far, looking at paths of desire that have formed and planning how to move forward now we can see what is happening. We will be smartening up the edges and filling the bug hotel. So if you have any edging tools or things suitable for the bug hotels such as twigs, bamboo, anything natural really then bring it along, don’t worry if you don’t there’s plenty of pine cones and bits at the meadow we can use.
Everyone welcome including children of all ages but please be aware garden tools will be being used at each session and may be left unattended so all children must have a supervising adult at all times.
Email us for more details
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