Posts by Cultivation Street Staff
Cultivation Street Ambassador Scheme: New for 2016!
Are you a community or school gardening project that wants professional advice and support? This year the Cultivation Street campaign is expanding to build a national network of gardening mentors to support community projects. [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left”…
Read More...Cultivation Street 2015: Meet Winners Bedford Road!
[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][fusion_youtube id=”D3mr99nolmE” width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””] Meet the winners of our 2015 Cultivation Street competition! A panel of judges, including leading figures from the horticultural and sustainability industries, as well as…
Read More...Cultivation Street 2015: Regional front garden winners
Judging the Cultivation Street entries this year was so hard! All our shortlisted entries had fantastic gardens and we were hard pushed to pick the winners. Congratulations to all on this list – you have won £500 of National Gardening Gift Vouchers. Find out more about our Cultivation Street community gardening campaign here! South Bedford…
Read More...Cultivation Street 2015: Special category community winners
Judging the Cultivation Street entries this year was so hard. All our shortlisted entries had fantastic gardens and we were hard pushed to pick the winners. Congratulations to all on this list! Find out more about our Cultivation Street community gardening campaign here! Transformation Street Cyril’s Memorial Garden, Liverpool A group of neighbours has joined…
Read More...2014 Cultivation School runner-up – Skipton Parish School
School volunteer Kath Pickard was talking to a dinner lady one day about the derelict area at the back of the school. It had been left as a tip – full of rubble left over from nearby building work. Together they decided to take on the challenge of transforming it into a school garden. It…
Read More...2014 Cultivation School winner – Ysgol Egsob Morgan
Junior school Ysgol Egsob Morgan in Denbighshire, Wales, has run an Eco Club for five years. Pupils grow a wide array of vegetables and have planted over 800 trees on the school site. Teacher Richard Hatwood told us that all activities are led by the children and they are represented on the Eco Committee. They…
Read More...2014 Multiplication Street Winners – Hoad Terrace
Twelve neighbours on a terraced road near the Lake District were at a loss as to what to do with their front gardens. Each house had one of twelve long, thin strips of land outside. And then they had an idea – why not join the twelve gardens together? So they did. They now have…
Read More...Cultivation Street 2014 Overall Winner – Annie Street
Residents in Annie Street, Salford did not have front gardens – the space at the front of the houses was occupied by a concrete alleyway. Bit by bit, they started planting up the outside, and have now adopted the entire passage and made it into makeshift front gardens. They have planted fruit trees and shrubs…
Read More...2014 Commmunity and Sustainability winner – Footprints Women’s Centre
Footprints Women’s Centre has been helping women and children for 22 years. It is based in the Colin Neighbourhood of Northern Ireland, a disadvantaged area with a high proportion of single parents with children under five. Footprints operates as a social enterprise, and has developed a food growing project modelled on the Transition Towns movement.…
Read More...2014 Transformation Street Winners – That Bloomin’ Triangle
Toxteth in Liverpool has become increasingly derelict and unoccupied since the riots in the 1980s. Helen Hebden lives in the Granby Triangle, a group of four streets that is heavily unoccupied. Ten years ago, some remaining residents decided to take control of the area by planting and greening-up the voids. They spruced up their own…
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