Open Days
Vaisakhi Open Day – Saturday 11th April 12-4pm
Come and join us for another of our Open Days presenting cultures and religions of Caldmore! After Easter comes Vaisakhi, the celebration of harvest and community.
We start around 12pm with a Bhangra dance workshop for all ages (repeated after 2pm) and continue with tabla concert, the story of Vaisakhi, and stories of Sikhs who settled from Punjab.
All that and, as always, food, activities for children, and lots of opportunities to help and enjoy the garden.
The event is organised together with Caldmore Gurdwara, Walsall Housing Group and Caldmore Village Festival Group, with the help of Near Neighbours funding.
Caldmore Community Garden, Carless Street, WS1 3RH.
Saturday, April 11th, 12-4pm.
English Roots – Spring Open Fun Day in the Garden – Saturday 21st March
Don’t miss our first open day of the year – English Roots – on Saturday 21st March, 12-4pm!
Programme:
– Bath Street Band
– Easter Egg Hunt
– Easter arts and crafts
– Easter walk in the garden
– quiz with prizes
– poetry reading with our writer in residence David Calcutt and other garden poets
– and delicious food!
Hopefully we will have first plants to sell, too.
The event is organised together with Bath Street Centre and is the first in the series of multicultural events funded by Near Neighbours.
It is also a part of national Big Dig Day!
Carols in the Garden – Saturday 20th December 5pm
CAROLS IN THE GARDEN
Saturday (20th December), 5pm
Come and join us at a carols concert in the garden and sing along with Bath Street Band in the green centre of Caldmore.
There will be mulled apple juice and mince pies to keep you warm and happy:-)
Please bring a torch or a lantern.
Garden Action Day! Help us dress a tree and build the path on Saturday 6th December
Tips for starting a community garden – part 1
Great post by Our Own Organic Gardens. We couldn’t agree more! I would only ask that one should always hope for the best, people will come and will bring their own unique ideas and projects that will push the garden in unexpected directions.
And speaking of practicalities, always try to negotiate the longest lease possible. 7 years may seem like a lot at the beginning but it will be gone before you know it.
Another tip would be: establish links with local schools and organisations. They have the people and their own promotion channels. It is sometimes difficult to fit with their schedules and regulations, but when you make it, it’s worth every minute of effort.
Yesterday, I went to another Big Lunch Extras (Eden Project) event, which was in Wolverhampton itself. It was another successful day and we had a speaker to talk us through bid writing, which is a difficult process and there are plenty of things we need to know to write them successfully. We also had craft workshops and made things from fabric and lanterns from willow. Both were very good and everyone was engaged in them all afternoon. In the evening we watched the film Project Wild Thing which is about a father who wants to reconnect people with the great outdoors.
I was introduced to Bethan from Birmingham who wanted to start a community garden and I wanted to give her as much as advice as I could. So I thought it would be useful to write out a blog post to go through some things that will need to…
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Bonfire Night at Caldmore Community Garden – Sunday, 9 November, 7-9pm
Bonfire night at Caldmore Community Garden!
Come and join us on Sunday 9th November, 7-9pm. Bring a torch or a lantern and enjoy the ancient pleasure of sitting by the fire, lovely food and mulled apple juice, accompanied by some of David Calcutt’s garden poems.
See you in the garden.
And what a day it was! Some photos from our Open Day
What a day!
We’ve had 86 visitors, Good Traditions rocked the garden with its folk repertoire, we still smell of lavender and carry around our lavender sachets, we wrote little pieces about the garden that will inspire our Writer in Residence David Calcutt, the food was gorgeous and even bugs got their hotel!
Thank you all for coming, helping out and supporting the garden. Hope you enjoyed yourselves as much as we did!
Edible Gardens / Wild About Gardens September Open Day
Caldmore Community Garden – Edible Gardens / Wild About Gardens Open Day
Saturday 20 September 2014, 12-4pm
Caldmore Community Garden invites the young and the old and the ones in the middle to come along and savour our garden on Edible Gardens open day on Saturday 20th of September.
Calling all children and young people to help the wildlife and build a BUG HOTEL – bring some twigs, bamboo canes, straw and plastic bottles and help the bugs get cosy for the cold months.
To keep your fingers busy, there are plenty of lavender sachets to make and take home to make that lovely scent last through the winter.
Meet the writer – David Calcutt is starting his 12 months residency in the garden and needs to hear your story! He’ll also be collecting your thoughts about gardens for his first piece of writing.
And last but definitely not least, it’s festival time: Good Traditions will rock the garden playing its folk rock tunes on our garden stage!
Try our harvest and have some homemade Asian food made from our organically grown garden. Tea and coffee and hot drinks available.
We have come a long way to the harvest, you are truly, warmly welcome to share our garden with us!
Be there and stand proud!
If you want to help us set up, we will be in the garden starting from 11am.
Caldmore Community Garden, Carless Street, WS1 3RH Walsall
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