Come to the launch of our new Gruffalo Trail at the Garden – meet the Mouse, Owl, Fox, Snake, and of course the Gruffalo himself!
Aimed at children under 6, but siblings can come along, too!
Our address: Caldmore Community Garden, Carless Street, WS1 3RH
WILLOW WORKSHOPS
WITH ARTIST KATE MORRELL
Learn to sculpt your own small willow animal at Caldmore Community Garden and get involved in making some bigger sculptures for everyone to admire! Kate will show us the techniques she uses to make the sculpture from start to finish – feel free to bring along any pictures to work from to make your own piece.
Come and join us for a fun and relaxed willow weaving as a part of our creative Women’s Tuesdays group. We can work indoors or outdoors (weather permitting).
Kate Morrell is an experienced willow artist based in Leicestershire. She set up her workshops 4 years ago and has met some wonderful people who have sculpted the most fantastic sculptures.
Kate’s website: https://katemorrellwillowworkshops.co.uk
WORKSHOP DATES:
Tuesday 18th April 10am – 1pm
Tuesday 25th April 10am – 1pm
Wednesday 3rd May 10am – 4pm
Wednesday 10th May 10am – 4pm
Please aim to attend all 4 workshops as they are seen as a process – we start from learning to how make a small sculpture for our own garden, and proceed to make a few larger ones to install at the Community Garden.
We will be working in small groups, so you will get help and support both from Kate and from other women.
To book a place, please e-mail calmoregarden@gmail.com or text 07871813252.
The workshops are one of the creative projects funded by The National Lottery Community Fund as a part of our Reaching Communities Project.
Come and join us for a free Easter Egg Hunt event with two egg hunt zones – one for children under 5 and one for 5-12.
Come dressed up in your party dress and wear your Easter bonnet if you have one!
Easter arts and crafts – make your own Easter basket, cress head and Easter cards Seed sowing and gardening for kids Tombola Face-painting Cake and drinks at our Community Cafe
1pm Easter Egg Hunt for children – don’t be late!
There is only one hunt and it finishes within 15 minutes, so you’re going to miss it if you’re late.
Visit Santa’s Grotto and meet Santa and his elves!
– Live Music: George Northall (sax) plays Christmas and winter songs
– Presents for children and family photographs with Santa
– Christmas crafts
– Garden stall with Christmas cards made at the Garden
– Mince pies, mulled apple juice, hot drinks and home-made cake
The free Festival of Lights returns for two days at Caldmore Community Garden on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th November 2022. The festival provides a free celebration of diverse cultural and artistic traditions and brings people together across cultures to enjoy arts and creativity for all ages.
Caldmore Community Garden will be illuminated to create a place where diverse traditions of Diwali, Bonfire Night, and All Soul’s Eve meet to light up the night and open the doors to all the community.
Saturday 5h November:
– 6pm – Animal Magic by storyteller Peter Chand and Fox & Rocha
Sunday 6th November
– 5.45 meet at the Garden for the Lantern Procession
– 7pm fire performance by Helter Skelter Arts
Gates open half an hour earlier with hot drinks and cake at our community cafe.
Saturday 5th November will see a performance of ‘Animal Magic’ from Peter Chand and Fox & Rocha at 6:00pm. Join Storyteller Peter Chand and musical maestros Fox & Rocha for a family session of stories and songs from around the world. You will encounter fantastic tales of elephants with small noses, preening peacocks and misbehaving crows. A toe-tapping interactive and lively evening awaits you as this delightful trio returns to Caldmore Community Garden.
On Sunday 6th November the joyous and beautiful Lantern Procession will start off the evening at 5:45p.m. The procession, led by fiddle player Adrian Ward, will walk from the Community Garden to Caldmore Green. Pick up a lantern created by the school children from Caldmore Primary Academy, toddlers and families from Caldmore Tots group and the community of Caldmore. Alternatively, bring your own torches and join in the fun. We will light up the streets of Caldmore and invite everyone to accompany us on our way back to the Garden.
Return to the Garden for an incredible free, fire performance, at 7pm by Helter Skelter Arts that will light up the Garden with their flames and daring stunts! A great show for all the family. (Keep an eye out for the duo around the Garden as well, as they paint patterns and images in the air with their amazing LED props)!
The festival is delivered by Caldmore Village Festival Group and funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, Black Country Touring, whg and Children In Need.
CALDMORE VILLAGE FESTIVAL ARE LOOKING FOR AN EXTERNAL EVALUATOR FOR CALDMORE COMMUNITY GARDEN AND OUR “GARDEN FOR ALL” PROJECT
Role: External Evaluator
Fee: £6,000.00 to £7,000.00 for the full engagement period (paid in two annual installments).
Engagement period: July 2022 – February 2024
This is freelance self-employed post, spread over two years.
Place of work: Remote working and visits to the project in Walsall
We are looking for an evaluator who has experience in the arts and participation to carry creative evaluation of our flagship project – Caldmore Community Garden with activities and events funded as a part of Reaching Communities’ “Garden for All” project. If you do not fit all the criteria but do have relevant experience that could make you a great candidate, we would still love to hear from you and encourage you to apply. We welcome applications from people with a range of experiences and skills.
We promote equality, diversity and inclusion throughout our projects and our workplace. We actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. We aim to make the application process as accessible as possible.
To apply, please email your CV and a one page cover letter to: Anna Webster – caldmoregarden@gmail.com by Friday 24th June.
Please note, applications will be reviewed as they come in as we are looking to appoint this post as soon as possible.
Planning what to grow, when to grow it, and how to arrange it all often seems like the most bewildering choice both for new growers and even those with more experience.
Successful organic growing, in particular, is all about good planning. In this course you will learn how to plan your plot organically, with a focus on crop rotation, preventing pests and diseases, maximising harvests and planning for the year ahead.
We will guide you through the steps, giving you a fundamental understanding of the planning process so that you have the confidence to make your own personal plan.
Session will cover:
Healthy soils are the basis for healthy plants and the building block for any organic garden. This course will examine what makes a healthy soil and consider methods for testing it in your own gardens or growing spaces. We will also discuss the practical steps you can take to improve your soil using organic methods such as composts, green manures and no dig methods.
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The importance of gardens as wildlife refuges for all sorts of life, not just beneficial insects is becoming widely recognised, and we’re all being encouraged to be more wildlife friendly in our gardening practices. But how does this translate into reality in a small urban garden?
Can you really have a wildflower meadow co-existing with football-mad children, for example? And won’t that big brushwood heap become a home for less welcome wildlife such as rats? Find out how to really make your garden work for wildlife – and you!
Session will cover:
As a new vegetable grower, you may feel everything is out to get you as you watch one row of seedlings after another succumb to some nameless grot, or be munched by unseen foes.
Feel you have to reach for a spray but don’t want use toxic chemicals on your food? You don’t have to. Learn about the insects out there who are on your side, as well as methods of control for almost every garden problem. We’ll help you identify what you can do in the way of prevention, cures and controls, as well as methods for minimizing the most common pest and disease problems.
The session will cover
Seed saving might seem like a dark art but once you get into it you realise how satisfying it can be to take one step further towards self-sufficiency in your growing. This course will introduce you to the rationale behind seed saving and give plenty of practical examples of the process. We will also introduce you to some of the fascinating varieties within Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library.
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Home composting has always been a no brainer. With each compost bin, you are saving 125 kg of waste having to be taken away from home, and instead turning it into a great product that will benefit your soil, your garden and everything you grow.
However, there is a bit more to it than just throwing it all on a heap and hoping it will make lovely compost. This course will help you to fine tune that process, so that you have a better idea of how it all works. It will give you an understanding of the basic requirements for composting to take place and the various influencing factors giving you a much better degree of control and confidence.
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Trainers
Anton Rosenfeld has been with Garden Organic for 18 years. His work has ranged from projects with commercial field-scale growers to small-scale community gardens and allotments. He has worked as a grower, runs many training courses and regularly writes for Grow Your Own and Kitchen Garden magazine. He has a passion for soils, composting and growing veg from a wide range of cultures and horizons.
Sally Cunningham has spent a lifetime as a professional gardener, and has always been fascinated by creatures that she finds in the garden: what they are, what they eat and how they live. She has worked with Garden Organic for over 20 years and has encountered almost every horticultural problem. Sally reckons a well-adjusted garden should wriggle, crawl and squirm as well as sing…
About Garden Organic
Garden Organic is the national charity for organic growing. We have been around since 1958 and have over 20 000 members. Our goal is simple – to get people growing organically. We do this in lots of ways:
• Working with communities providing them with support in their growing
• Providing horticultural advice to gardeners
• Campaigning on topical issues such as the use of peat or pesticides
• Preserving traditional and heirloom varieties in our Heritage Seed Library
• Researching into organic gardening techniques
We also have an organic demonstration garden at Ryton on Dunsmore just outside Coventry, where you can book onto to tours and workshops. For further information visit: www.gardenorganic.org.uk
The course is a part of our Garden for All project funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.
To book a place, please e-mail us on caldmoregarden@gmail.com.
A great way to round off the summer with an afternoon of live music including performances from some of Walsall’s best live acts as well as leading national names.
The ever popular Alex Fawson will be kicking off proceedings as well as hosting the day. The afternoon also sees a performance from local legend Martin Breedon who will be bringing his band the Rustlers to enliven The Garden Stage. Fresh from her storming performance at the Arboretum in August as vocalist for Funk and Disorderly, Gemma Niles will be returning to the garden heading up her own band Katsu Cassettes.
Heading up the the M6 from Birmingham singer song writer, Jack Cattell will be taking the stage later on in the afternoon, for a rare Walsall performance, showcasing music from his new EP, Locked Away. https://jackcattellmusic.bandcamp.com/.
Heading up the bill, we are very proud to have the return of the amazing songsmith, story teller and all round national treasure Ash Mandrake, who will be sharing his own unique brand of psychedelic folk. https://ashmandrake.bandcamp.com
This amazing event is brought to you absolutely free and is hosted in the beautiful environs of Caldmore Community Garden.
The event starts at 1.00pm and goes on to 7.30. The garden café will be opening all afternoon serving up hot and cold drinks and a range of cakes and light refreshments. You’re welcome to bring your own picnic and there will be covered areas in the unlikely event that we have any rain showers!
The event is it’s very definitely family friendly, and there is a play area for young children along with hosted activities, so please come on down and chill with us, to round off our summer of great events at Caldmore Community Garden!
Feeling murderous towards your shrubs? Fed up with a non fruiting tree? Thinking of slaughtering your Leylandii?
Before you reach for the trimmers… a quick reminder of what, when and where to chop by Sally Cunningham.
Friday, December 18th, at 4pm
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89961357931?pwd=UHAwcXowb3BWQlBWa3F6YUlZWmJwQT09
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Passcode: 417999
Our gardening sessions on Zoom are funded by The National Lottery COVID-19 Emergency Fund.
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