We are pleased to announce that Forest Farm Peace Garden’s Tree Planting Open Day will be Sunday 11th March, 11am – 4pm. We welcome everyone to come along and help us plant new trees in our orchard, as well as enjoy the usual range of Open Day activities- seedlings for sale, facepainting, garden tours and delicious food!
More information here.
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Redbridge Institute are running the Level 2 in Environmental Performance and Best Practice, which is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health, from 30th January 2012.
www.redbridge-iae.ac.uk/file.php/1/Docs/Environment_L2_Award_term_2.pdf
Anyone interested in attending should contact the Redbridge Institute, Gearies Centre, Gaysham Avenue, Gants Hill, Ilford IG2 6TD or call 020 8550 2398 to book a place on the course.
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Hello all-
I hope you are enjoying the bright and wintry weather, and keeping warm! Despite the brisk and windy days, there’s still lots to do in the community garden and our volunteers are still busy harvesting vegetables and maintaining the garden for the winter. We will continue to be open for volunteers on Wednesdays and Fridays from 11am to 4pm through Wednesday 21st December.
Join us for a hot lunchtime Winter Solstice meal around the fire at 1pm, Wednesday 21st December, before we say goodbye to the garden for a few weeks until we open again on Friday the 6th January. There will be lots to do in the new year- make volunteering at your community garden your New Year’s resolution! Contact mairead [at] forestfarmpeacegarden.org to find out about becoming a volunteer or about our Buddy Scheme for supported volunteering.
**Exciting News – 2012 Orchard Skills Programme** Before we break for Winter, we have an exciting announcement about next year: we’ve received funding from Awards for All to run a year-long programme of workshops and open days about trees and orchards at Forest Farm Peace Garden. We will be running a series of workshops, roughly once a month, focussing on activities and skills such as hedgelaying, gardening for wildlife, medicinal properties of British trees, composting, pruning and more. Several of our open days throughout the year will also be themed around orchard skills, like a tree-planting Open Day in March and a return of the popular Abundance Open Day in October.
Upcoming events are:
>>Sunday 29 January, 10.30am – 4pm: Hedgelaying workshop at Forest Farm Peace Garden Learn the theory and practice of laying hedges to create natural and effective borders which protect and support wildlife.
>>Sunday 26th February, 10.30am – 4pm: Winter Pruning workshop at Forest Farm Peace Garden Learn the skills for winter pruning of trees to keep your trees healthy and effectively manage their growth.
Information on further workshops will be forthcoming in the new year. We will provide necessary materials and instruction- come prepared for the weather. There will be some hot refreshments, but please bring a packed lunch. RSVP-ing is crucial as places will are limited. Contact info [at] forestfarmpeacegarden.org in order to find out more or to RSVP to either or both of the workshops
>>Tree Planting Open Day – weekend of 24/25 March (day TBC) Join us for a day of planting trees at Forest Farm Peace Garden as well as the usual open day activities of hot food, plant sales, entertainment and activities.
**Get Involved – join the Orchard Skills organising committee**
In order to organise this exciting project, we need volunteers to help out to plan it and make it happen. You don’t need to know anything about trees- as long as you like them! We need all sorts of input- design and web skills, outreach and publicity, working with schools to organise tree planting activities, running the open days and workshops… but most importantly enthusiasm and commitment. Get in touch with Natalie, the Project Coordinator (natalie [at] forestfarmpeacegarden.org), to find out about getting involved in the Orchard Skills working group.
**For more updates, check us out on Facebook**
For updates about exciting permaculture, gardening, mental health, refugee/asylum seeker events and projects around London watch our Facebook page. Follow this link and “Like” Forest Farm Peace Garden, and we’ll be able to keep in touch with you!
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Redbridge Rainbow Community is celebrating it’s first bithday on 1st December and we would love you to be there! There’s a chance to hear what we have been doing over the last year and what strides we have made in the borough. As it is World AIDS day we wil have some speakers to talk about thier work and the issue of HIV/AIDS. Food and drink will be provided and there will be a chance to network with other local community groups.
When: Thursday December 1st
Time: 6.30 – 8.30pm
Where: Cardinal Heenan Centre
326 High Rd
Ilford
IG1 1QP
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Forest Farm Peace Garden is at the end of Hazelbrouck Gardens, Hainault, IG6 2XL, open on Wednesdays and Fridays from 11am to 4pm. We are sometimes open on Sundays for workshops and events. To get there take the central line or bus 150 or 247 to Hainault tube. Turn left out of the station onto New North Road, then turn left and go down Hazelbrouck Gardens and come through the gates at the end.
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We had a great day at Forest Farm Peace Garden today- the beautiful late-summer weather must have been exceptionally tempting today because we had one of our busiest days of the year, with nearly 30 volunteers, plotholders and first-time visitors coming to the garden to get stuck in. Today’s topics of conversation: hawthorn berry syrup, green manure, making soap and the HUGE pumpkin we harvested!
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