Category Archives: Events
Winterbourne House & Garden Update
Winterbourne House & Garden have been busy in the past month and you can read all about what they have been up to at their blog Digging For Dirt. First of all they have published their March Notebook with gardening tips, tasks and tricks for budding gardeners throughout March; from planting your early potatoes to deadheading Hydrangeas, it’s your go to guide for your garden this month. The Opportunist is a piece that continues on in their historical series, looking at Birch trees colonization of Britain and their lineage in the Northern Hemisphere as a whole and is well worth a read. Finally they’ve uploaded some more wonderful pictures to their Snapshot section including some wonderfully captured mushrooms, head to their Coach House Gallery for more shots and information.
Growing Birmingham Networking Event – Tuesday 12th April – 7pm – 9pm
Join Growing Birmingham at the Botanical Gardens for our annual networking event. Coinciding with the Big Dig weekend, the evening will contain a variety of workshops including: support with funding, social media, growing to sell, volunteer engagement and more. Attendees are offered the chance to meet people in their field, discuss current projects and maybe even come up with some new ones!
Open to all, for more information click the link here.
Bloom in Birchfield – Spring Event
Livingston Road C
ommunity Allotment are having a Spring event on the 2nd April to launch a ‘Friends of Bloom in Birchfield’. The event will run between 1-4pm and they are looking for volunteers to help them run the day! They want everyone who wants to see a cleaner and more beautiful Birchfield to join together under the ‘Bloom in Birchfield’ banner. Get down and get involved with what promises to be a brilliant day.
For more information please e-mail Rob at [email protected]
Big Dig in Birmingham – 2016
The Big Dig returns to Birmingham this April for the third year running. The event will be on the 16th April and will see gardens across the city throw open their doors and give anybody the chance to get down and get digging to really kick start the growing season. Last year was a great success with over 1,600 people taking part across the UK, 1,207 of which had never been involved with the gardens before!
We’re keen to top that number this year so keep your eyes out for further information on the gardens that will be involved, free seeds giveaways and networking events which will all be advertised on here in the coming weeks and months.
Between now and then head over to The Big Dig website and take a look at some of the photos from last year and get inspired to make this year bigger and better! Alternatively, pop over to our Birmingham map and register your own event here.
Give Your Unwanted Tools A New Life In Africa
South Birmingham Tools for Africa restore equipment and work with Tools For Self Reliance to put them in the hands of tradesmen and women in East African countries so that they can provide for their families.
The group are looking for donations of tools and time and would love you, or your community group, to get involved.
The group meets in Kings Heath on Tuesday mornings to restore tools. If you can’t make it then see contact details below or restore them at home, or with your own community group, using the tool refurbishing guides.
The group meet in Kings Heath Park House on Tuesday mornings.
For more information either pop along to one of their meetings or call Martin on 0121 777 4464
11am Saturday 21st September – The Big Dig – Thornbridge Allotments
Following the success of our MacMillan Coffee Morning (£365 raised!) and Vegetable Show, it is now time to focus our attention on The Big Dig and Edible Garden Day. Thornbridge Alotments are opening the gates once again to anyone and everyone who is interested in growing their own, plants, wildlife – essentially anything to do with the gardening.
Thornbridge Allotments: A bit of a do for MacMillan Cancer Care
As most will know, putting on an event is fraught with pitfalls and stress, so putting on 3 on the same day was a draft idea (mine!), but tomorrow (14th September) is the big day, and so far, we are on target. The gates open at 11am come rain or shine — Thornbridge Allotments on Beeches Road in Great Barr (B42).
Every year we hold our site Vegetable Show which is a good opportunity for all our plot holders to enter their prize veg into the judging tent and for none plot holders to see what we grow. Essentially it is a bit of fun, but is run brilliantly by Lesley along with her trusty helpers Alan and Dennis, and is judged very professionally by an independent judge – we even have to arm Dennis with a broom to keep people away!
The Birmingham Honey Show, 14th and 15th September 2013
This weekend is the Birmingham Honey Show at Martineau Gardens — 10am to 4pm each day.
And FREE ENTRY!
Organised by Birmingham & District Beekeepers Association
Back for a third year, the Birmingham Honey Show is a chance to find out all about the fascinating craft of beekeeping, you’ll be able to talk to local beekeepers, meet a queen (!), learn about the different types of bees, talk to beekeepers, think about becoming a beekeeper, view observation hives, see the competition entries, make candles from beeswax and buy locally produced honey direct from the beekeepers.
This Saturday! Midday to 5pm – Livingstone Road Allotments Summer Fete
Come along to the Annual Summer Fete at Livingstone Road Allotments (B20 3LL) organised by the Birchfield Residents Action Group (BRAG).
There’ll be a tasting menu featuring a range of allotment-grown produce, plus other refreshments, veg competitions, displays, food tastings, a veg auction . . . lots happening, including the launch of their new cultural food project to connect people through growing, cooking and eating local produce. They’ll also be asking visitors for recipes for a new Cook Book.