How you can help
We’re looking for people to help make Growing Birmingham a force for good in Birmingham — and further afield.
Please do get in touch (info@growingbirmingham.org) if you like:
- Interviewing interesting people and getting what they say into the wider world,
- Collating and communicating other useful information
- Organising events
- If you’re a grower of food and would like to write about it on a regular or occasional basis in a lively, informed way.
Finally, if you’d like to use the Growing Birmingham logo either as-is, or for use in an amended form (e.g. Growing Moseley or ano place), just get in touch and we’ll send you the relevant files. (We will have a useful pack shortly.)
Hi – I’m the co-ordinator of a garden development project on the Grove Rd estate, B14 6SP (Kings Heath). Brandwood House and Cocksmoor House make up the over-50s assisted living council estate which has 68 flats, mostly inhabited by single elderly people. I’m the youngest here at age 54! We’re growing things, trying to winkle tenants out of their flats to do therapeutic and meaningful activities, trying to improve our relationships with the ‘neighbours’, making the place beautiful… I write for Pendulum (the magazine of Bipolar UK) and occasionally the Bham Mail. Google my name… We’re interested in what others are doing and beginning to network.
HI, I’m the Manager of Northfield Ecocentre. We’re running a few projects you might be interested in. Northfield’s Orchards aims to plant 1,400 trees across Northfield by spring 2013 – a mixture of fruit trees and broadleaf whips, creating at least 30 community orchards. So far we have planted 450 trees creating 9 community orchards, with another 400+ trees on order for the planting season.
Incredible Edible Northfield is a new project to inspire our community to grow food. We will be transforming some unused community land into a forest garden, organic veg plots, a sensory garden and more.
We’re working with Urban Harvest to develop community fruit harvesting.
We have a regular gardening group on a Thursday morning that is responsible for transforming our lawned area to a vibrant, productive vegetable plot.
We would love to link up with other community food growers, share ideas and together inspire as many as possible to give food growing a try, whether at home, work or in the community.
The Council considered The Spring Fair on 9th March such a success that they are sponsoring another event at Botanical Gardens.
This is on the occasion of the Eden Project’s “BIG LUNCH”
on
SUNDAY 2nd JUNE 2013.
There will be more activities outside, given the time of year. There will of course be some emphasis on FOOD and all things related. However, the broader theme of SUSTAINABILITY remains and the main hall will be used in a similar fashion. Terms and conditions will remain the same with no charge for stall holders.
Further details will be available in a couple of weeks. In the meantime if this is of interest to you please let me know so that I can provisionally reserve space for you.
With Best Wishes
Malcolm Currie
Globally Local