Greening Stoke
  • Blog
  • About
  • Connect
  • Blog
  • About
  • Connect

Allotment Blog

Reflecting on the past and Plotting the future

11/1/2021

0 Comments

 
In the depth of last year’s lock down the Greening Stoke team had time to sit back and reflect on the project that’s been taking place on the streets of Stoke on Trent for the last few years and if /how we should take the project forward in the future. We’ve had an edible pavement garden in the first year with tomatoes, courgettes and edible flowers. In the second year we encouraged people to grow and look for native wildflowers, to reclaim pockets of forgotten ground around the town. And the third year we opened up to the public and asked what you wanted to see. The pallet planters outside the market and the large planter outside Summer Street Centre filled with flowers being very popular. 
Picture
Picture
Picture
​Throughout the 3 years we have noticed people choosing herbs and salad veg to grow during our tin can planter workshop and having both grown veg at home came to the same conclusion that in uncertain times the sense of accomplishment you get when tucking into a plate of food freshly harvested from plants you have tended is second to none and so we put our names forward for a community allotment so we could share this feeling with as many people as possible. 
Picture
​Just before Christmas we were told that we had been offered a plot in the heart of Stoke at the Richmond St allotments a 2-minute walk from the Art Stop studio and last week we were shown around our new plot and given the keys (well code really) to this fab space. As you can see it’s a bit over grown but we are blown away with the potential this space offers and our creative minds have gone into overdrive thinking about how we can share this experience with you!
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Authors

    Greening Stoke is a project run in partnership between Festival Stoke and Letting in the Light.  We are based in Stoke-on-Trent.  
    We want to share with you the journey of taking on an allotment for Greening Stoke. We will share our ups and our downs, and we hope that you will be able to come and visit us during 2021.
    Please sign up to our newsletter too and we can tell you when we are running activities you can join in with.

    COVID Safe

    We are starting this adventure in January 2021 in the middle of a national Lockdown. Until things change and begin to open up we are  abiding by all the Covid-19 Government guidance and for the foreseeable future only Rachel and Anne will be working, in a socially distanced way, to prepare and maintain Plot 33 for when we can invite the community to work with us.

    Archives

    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021

    Sign up to hear our news!

    News Updates

    Follow us

    Picture
    Picture

    Get in touch

    Contact
Proudly powered by Weebly