Cultivation Street 2015: Meet Winners Bedford Road!

By Cultivation Street Staff | September 14, 2015

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Cultivation Street 2015: Regional front garden winners

By Cultivation Street Staff | September 7, 2015

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…

Cultivation Street 2015: Special category community winners

By Cultivation Street Staff | August 31, 2015

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…

2014 Cultivation School runner-up – Skipton Parish School

By Cultivation Street Staff | October 13, 2014

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…

2014 Cultivation School winner – Ysgol Egsob Morgan

By Cultivation Street Staff | October 13, 2014

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…

2014 Multiplication Street Winners – Hoad Terrace

By Cultivation Street Staff | October 13, 2014

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…

Cultivation Street 2014 Overall Winner – Annie Street

By Cultivation Street Staff | October 13, 2014

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…

2014 Commmunity and Sustainability winner – Footprints Women’s Centre

By Cultivation Street Staff | October 13, 2014

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.…

2014 Transformation Street Winners – That Bloomin’ Triangle

By Cultivation Street Staff | October 13, 2014

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…

2014 Inspiration Street winners – Woodlands Community Garden

By Cultivation Street Staff | October 13, 2014

Woodlands Community Garden has been built by the community for the community. Over the last four years they have transformed a derelict site into a thriving outdoor community centre. Much of the space is dedicated to raised beds, where members can grow their own veg, herbs and fruit. They hold community events to bring people…