Edible Park Project

TTC is working with the Cheltenham Borough Council this year to convert the Annecy Garden in Sandford Park (at the top of the Strand) into a vegetable garden which is both ornamental, productive and insect-friendly. The delicious edibles will be grown with an array of colourful annual flowers, which will attract bees and other benificial insects, as well as people. The garden will be just as pretty as a bedding scheme, but a lot more interesting and useful.

Weekly work sessions have now begun on Mondays at 6-8pm. We will be putting up our beanpoles, cut from local hazel coppice, and adding to the peas, potatoes, herbs and flowers that are already planted.

See Echo & SoGlos articles and contact Lorraine for more details.

Planting is underway and we will be holding regular weekly work sessions, which will be advertised at the site, for anyone who wants to come along and lend a hand with weeding or planting, with the reward of going away inspired and with some produce to taste. People passing by will be invited to taste a few leaves or pods too. We hope to have events throughout the growing season and a grand harvest festival at the end of the project in the Autumn.

Oil is the invisible cost ingredient added to our food. Large-scale production uses chemical fertilisers and pesticides and they are made with oil. Then more oil is used to transport the food long distances. And oil is getting rapidly more expensive as it becomes scarcer.

The answer is to grow more locally and on a smaller scale. Transition Town Cheltenham is keen to help people grow their own, although gardens tend to be small nowadays and allotments hard to get.

LET’S ALL GROW FOOD !!

Garden Organic - the national charity for organic growing