Students on Fircroft College’s Mother Garden Bootcamp course have spent the last few weeks connecting with groups, and sharing plants, through what they have grown and propagated.
Edible shrubs, fruit and nut trees, perennial vegetables and herbs have been shared for community growing spaces, new orchards and forest gardens across different projects in Birmingham.
So far this year, we have shared with:
Lodgehill Cemetery, Selly Oak.
In order to preserve an old heritage apple variety they have grown, our students grafted from these trees, and returned new trees of this variety for the cemetery to plant.
With Nature in Mind, Witton and Handsworth.
We have grown and shared fruit trees for their developing food spaces in North Birmingham
People for People Community Allotment, Smethwick.
Fruit bushes given to support their community space.
The Active Well-Being Society and Omnia Medical practice.
Perennial edible and wildlife plants shared for the developent of a new community garden space on the grounds of the doctors surgery.
Hodgehill Eco-church, Bromford.
A wide range of edible plants and trees given to their new food garden developing on the grounds of the eco-church
Food Forest Brum (Spring to Life) at Watkins Secret Orchard, KIngs Norton / Druids Heath.
Young, unusual fruit trees grown at Fircroft, and given back to be planted in the food forest.
Space to Grow.
A range of edible perennial plants given for the gardening clubs they run in schools across the city.
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