Saturday 17th January 2026

We really enjoyed our first event of the year, starting off with an excellent pruning workshop from Sally Cunningham and Yoke Van der Meer.

Thank you to everyone who took part and helped to prune our fruit trees. Also a big thank you to Laura and Holly from Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust for the amazing nature crafts.

To everyone who took part in our Wassail by creating a cacophony around the fruit trees with the shakers they’d made with Monika and joining in the songs around the campfire with the beautiful performance of traditional wassail songs from Ash Mandrake.

As ever, a big thank you to our volunteers and the staff at Caldmore Community Garden for making it all happen. The event was funded by Reaching Communities.

Photography by Julia Kazmierczak (one of our Young Person Volunteers)