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Thank you to everyone who attended the launch of Newton Heath's new Community Garden!

Last Sunday (22nd May 2022) we held an afternoon party at the site of Newton Heath’s newly proposed community garden in the grounds of the local cricket club on Mabel Street. Over 100 people came down to play some games, plant seeds and have a chat with us about what a community garden could mean for them and what it might look like.

The community garden project is a collaboration with Sow The City and Winning Hearts and Minds, who have been consulting residents for the past year in a bid to ensure that the space accurately reflects the needs of the local community. The proposed space currently only houses four large, raised beds, but once cleared will be big enough for a community allotment and possibly a small orchard too.

As the garden nears its design stage, we’ll be helping to organise a bunch of workshops around varying topics at the cricket club – such as cooking, building your own planters and repairing your clothes – to continue making use of the space before the garden is built. If you’d like to get involved in the project, you can search In Our Nature Newton Heath on Facebook – or click here – to join our online group of residents and stay in the loop!