Garden Volunteering Project
Meet our new facilitator, Rhiannon Williams, who is an experienced horticulturalist, and brings new ideas and skills and boundless fun and enthusiasm to the team.
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The Garden Volunteering project is funded by the Lottery Community Fund
Garden Volunteer Story
Over the two years of the WIRE project we have developed a dedicated team of volunteers who work regularly in the vegetable garden and have become a really close and effective support group. They are involved all through the seasons of the year, seeding, planting, harvesting, cooking and eating the vegetables as well as preserving them for sale in the Hopebox shop.
One of our longest serving volunteers who has been working with us for 3 years now, has become ‘chief chef’, cooking up incredible creations with the produce each week.
Others have been involved for a year or two years but we continue to welcome in new women to join the team and the other volunteers pass on their knowledge.
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Seasonal celebrations are a recurring feature of our year.
A highlight of the second year was the making of the Three Sisters Bed, inspired by the book Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. This was an experiment in growing complimentary crops, Sweetcorn, Beans and Squash, in one garden bed. The women made a No-dig bed from start to finish and successfully harvested the three crops. The experiment really chimed with our ethos of the women supporting each other in their growth and recovery.
