Local groups get growing at RHS Garden Bridgewater
• Fifth RHS Garden opens on 18 May 2021
features hexagonal raised beds to bring people together to work collaboratively, make friends and get gardening experience.
• Seven local charities and schools have their own plots in the Community Grow garden
The groups taking part in the scheme are all local to the garden and come from a range of backgrounds and ages. Most have limited gardening experience and have never grown their own food before. They are:
• Groups will receive support and advice from the RHS Bridgewater team, apprentices and volunteers
• Secondary school pupils from Co-op Manchester and Co-op Academy, Walkden
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• The Yemeni Community Association Greater Manchester
even local groups from Salford have been chosen to ‘take over’ a brand new garden where they will develop their growing skills together. The Community Grow garden at RHS Garden Bridgewater is a first for the Royal Horticultural Society, where a purpose built space has been created for people from the community to use and grow whatever they choose. In a radical departure from traditional allotments where people garden individually, the specially-designed garden 190
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Academy,
• Salford Loaves and Fishes
• Salford Foundation Women’s Centre • Central YMCA, Salford • Social adVentures, a social enterprise who run Kids adVentures childcare nurseries and forest schools. Pupils from Co-op Academy, Walkden were the first to visit the garden this week and teacher Thomas McAndrew shared the group’s reaction: www.lancmag.com