Moulsecoomb Forest Garden
News
* People are running the Brighton Marathon for us this April 2012. Please sponsor them
* Two days before Bonfire Night our pride and joy, allotment shed, was burn't to the ground. The Argus published this front page and wrote this (PDF). Mourning in Moulsecoomb. We are front page of this seasons BHOGG newsletter (PDF) and there is a new short video about the project on Facebook.
* We will be having a woodland work day in Queensdown Woods (the woods behind the allotments) on Sunday 19th February 2012 11am-3pm will include lunch. Read flyer here (PDF)
* FareShare have become the first company to drop off their waste to be composted rather than end up in landfill. 'Check out these photos from their warehouse to homeless hostels to the forest garden compost heap'.
* We will be running an Organic Garden course for beginners on Sunday 4th March 2012
* Congratulations to Moulsecoomb Primary who won 'school of the year' at the Argus awards. We were nominated as Green Project of the Year but didn't win, read The Argus article about it here (PDF).
* Help your local school grow more food by offering to help run gardening clubs. Ideas and fundraising here. Adopt your local school and help them grow food. If you live in Brighton and Hove get in involved in the school gardens network.
* Forest garden beekeeper Vanessa Tourle will be speaking with the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects at Sussex University and the plight of bees and what you can do to save them on 23rd February 2012. Watch this short film made with advice from our resident bee keeper Vanessa and Council ecologist Matthew Thomas.
* Nearly 300 people came to our open day in June.
* Three pupils on work experience at the garden celebrated transforming our compost loo and receiving Princes Trust certificates and development awards to help them buy tools and equipment for college
* We help run clubs and produce food at the award winning Moulsecoomb Primary School. Watch a short video of their annual ‘Heritage and Environment Festival’ where 700 children from across the city came along to find out about outdoor learning Warren has been working closely with one Year 6 pupil who received the schools first ever Head Gardener Award! Families also made mosiacs which have been put up in our new compost loo! Year 1 pupils also came to the garden, harvested the garlic they planted in September and made pizzas with it
* The Ecologist magazine came up to the garden this spring
* We featured on Channel 4's 'The Secret Millionaire.' Read The Argus article about the show. An interview with the millionaire.
* We took part in the Brighton White Night Festival watch this short film (made in the pitch black!)
* We have become a community compost drop off point. Click here to view the poster. If you live nearby and cant compost at home bring your veg peelings, tea bags etc during our workdays and we will compost them for you. To find out more about the new legislation click here.
* In July we showed 4 representatives from UNESCO arround the garden project and Moulsecoomb Primary school as part of the councils bid for Brighton to become a bio-sphere reserve. Read all about it here.
* The Primary Geography magazine wrote about the outdoor learning environment created at Moulsecoomb Primary School , where we run a weekly gardening club and help to maintain the school grounds. The school's Breakfast Club have also won a Healthy Choice Gold Certificate - the first school breakfast club in Brighton and Hove to achieve this. View some pics here.
* Peter Whitcomb has been making notes of what he has seen at nearby Moulsecoomb Wild Park, read his findings here (Word Document 2.5Mb).
* Read all the Harvest Festival Feast at Moulsecoomb Primary in the latest Brighton and Hove Organic Gardening Group newsletter.
* Congratulations to long term volunteer and management committee member Michael Townsend who won City College's 'Foundation Learning' award. The award was not just for his work at the College and his determination to achieve despite his disabilities, but also for his voluntary work at the forest garden and the British Heart Foundation.
* We are mentioned in Dave Bangs' excellent new book 'A Freedom to Roam Guide to the Brighton Downs' Watch these short films of part of his woodland walk tour during our open day! - Film 1 - Film 2 - Film 3 - Film 4
* Meridan TV popped up to the garden and made a short film, you can watch it here.
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