Moulsecoomb Forest Garden
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* Don't miss these chances to see the fantastic school grounds at Moulsecoomb Primary school. Sussex Beacon open gardens on Saturday 29th June and open day at the annual Heritage and Environment Festival Thursday 20th June
* We featured on Radio 4's Open Country programme which you can hear here
* Listen to what one of our volunteers Teresa and Carly the cook have to say.
* We have become a Community Composting Hub.
* One of our volunteers Russel is now employed by us on an apprenticeship through City College to learn about carpentry. This is what the 'shed' will look like.
* Volunteering with us isn't just about gardening but the perfect opportunity to learn about outdoor education - using nature as a way of teaching pupils, especially effective for those that struggle in the classroom. Read about two students who started volunteering but now work for the garden.
* Some of the first vegetables we helped grow with pupils at Brighton Aldridge Community Academy ended up on the school menu.
* We held a successful walk in Westlain Belt woods behind BACA. Read a copy of the management report (PDF).
* FareShare have become the first company to drop off their waste to be composted rather than end up in landfill. 'Check out these photos from their warehouse to homeless hostels to the forest garden compost heap'. * We have become a community compost drop off point. Click here to view the poster. If you live nearby and cant compost at home bring your veg peelings, tea bags etc during our workdays and we will compost them for you. To find out more about the new legislation click here.
* Congratulations to Moulsecoomb Primary who won 'school of the year' at the Argus awards. We were nominated as Green Project of the Year but didn't win, read The Argus article about it here (PDF).
* Help your local school grow more food by offering to help run gardening clubs. Ideas and fundraising here. Adopt your local school and help them grow food. If you live in Brighton and Hove get in involved in the school gardens network.
* Three pupils on work experience at the garden celebrated transforming our compost loo and receiving Princes Trust certificates and development awards to help them buy tools and equipment for college
* We help run clubs and produce food at the award winning Moulsecoomb Primary School. Watch a short video of their annual ‘Heritage and Environment Festival’ where 700 children from across the city came along to find out about outdoor learning Warren has been working closely with one Year 6 pupil who received the schools first ever Head Gardener Award! Families also made mosiacs which have been put up in our new compost loo! Year 1 pupils also came to the garden, harvested the garlic they planted in September and made pizzas with it
* The Ecologist magazine came up to the garden this spring
* We featured on Channel 4's 'The Secret Millionaire.' Read The Argus article about the show. An interview with the millionaire.
* We took part in the Brighton White Night Festival watch this short film (made in the pitch black!)
* In July we showed 4 representatives from UNESCO arround the garden project and Moulsecoomb Primary school as part of the councils bid for Brighton to become a bio-sphere reserve. Read all about it here.
* Peter Whitcomb has been making notes of what he has seen at nearby Moulsecoomb Wild Park, read his findings here (Word Document 2.5Mb).
* Congratulations to long term volunteer and management committee member Michael Townsend who won City College's 'Foundation Learning' award. The award was not just for his work at the College and his determination to achieve despite his disabilities, but also for his voluntary work at the forest garden and the British Heart Foundation.
* We are mentioned in Dave Bangs' excellent new book 'A Freedom to Roam Guide to the Brighton Downs' Watch these short films of part of his woodland walk tour during our open day! - Film 1 - Film 2 - Film 3 - Film 4
* Meridan TV popped up to the garden and made a short film, you can watch it here.
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