Transition Wilmslow welcomed local residents and volunteers to their annual Seedy Saturday seed and seedling swap at the Temp community garden on Gravel lane last Saturday.
More than 60 people brought their surplus seeds and seedlings along to swap with others and children helped plant surplus seedlings in the gardens raised beds. It was a fun filled sunny morning and the children were kept busy with log piling, welly throwing and a scavenger hunt.
Planting in the Temp Community Garden began in 2011 when Transition Wilmslow first planted 10 fruit trees on the site with the help of Ashdene Primary School pupils and local councillors. Since then the garden has expanded with the building of raised beds built with a grant received from the Tudor Trust via their Community Futures Project, and from the Wilmslow Yorkshire Building Society.
Transition Wilmslow are currenlty raising funds to expand the community garden.
Rachel Corrigan commented "We had a fantastic afternoon of planting in the garden and swapping not only plants and seeds but also gardening knowledge and enthusiasm. The purpose of the garden has always been to provide not only an educational resource to encourage others to grow their own, but also to create a treasured community garden for everyone to enjoy and we really encourage Wilmslow residents to come along and get involved."
The Transition Food Group welcomes new members to join, they meet at 7.30pm, every 4th Wednesday of the month in the community garden, for more information visit the Transition Wilmslow website or email [email protected].
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This contrasts against Cheshire East Council ignoring brown field sites available and perfectly suitable for housing and promoting the use of our green fields for development. These are of course part of our food chain.
A trip today to the tip at Poynton where you can see that their recycle performance is 79% and recently to Macclesfield tip where it is 74% shows that Cheshire East does have some regard for reducing waste. Why? Because Brussels is enforcing it. Fail and you get fined.
Absolutely NO difference with land. You have to recycle old sites. I am unable to convince my grand daughter or grandson that waste from the kitchen is more important than overgrown or derelict sites.
Cheshire East council has included green fields on Adlington Road in it's core plan for Wilmslow, but NONE of our brown fields. And yes, there are plenty available. You can object to building on Adlington Road by attending the Wilmlsow Town Council planning meeting. Details are reported elsewhere and you can post an objection on the CEC planning portal ref 14/0007M.