Welcome to the Secret Garden South of Bobber's Mill Bridge in Nottingham
We are a group of local people, who are nurturing a wonderful community garden in the heart of the city. You'll find us just South of Bobbersmill Bridge, on the allotment site at the South end of Ascot Road. The Gardens are a great place where anyone can come to find out more about growing their own food in a changing climate. We cater for all abilities and welcome any nationality or age group.
Why not come and join us?
Monday, 23 September 2024
Thursday, 19 September 2024
AUTUMN NEWS
It's that time of year again when the Pumpkins and Squash are maturing nicely ready for our celebrations at the end of October. This year they will culminate on Sunday 27th of October with our Carving Competitions, Spooky Trails and Games, Autumnal Delicacies, Tombola and a Light Show. If you want to have a go at Pumpkin Carving, please let us know, as we will be having several carving workshops leading up to the event.
Friday 2nd August, we had a Bioblitz at Windmill Community Gardens. Families and volunteers at the gardens took part in both a bioblitz activity, and the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme 'Big Butterfly Count'
Dr Linda Birkin was on hand to lead the activity, help with identification, and discuss what was found. All observations were recorded and uploaded to the ongoing Windmill Wildlife (1) project, using the iNaturalist app.
Everything was identified as best as possible on the day, from group of wildlife (e.g. 'bumblebee') down to specific species (e.g. 'Garden spider').
What did we
find?
124 Species
We recorded 238 observations, covering 86 different species / groups. This included 16 species of butterflies / moths, 5 species of beetle and 8 species of hoverflies. This brings the current (August 2024) total number of species recorded at Windmill Gardens up to 124! This is dominated by insects and plants, so there's still plenty out there to find. Please add your casual records to the projects as well as ones with photos/evidence: www.inaturalist.org/projects/windmill-wildlife
Unfortunately I can't copy all the documents that Linda sent us as they are in a difficult format, but if you are interested, please get in touch and I'm sure we can send you a copy: wcgnottingham@gmail.com
Below is a list of the bug species found:
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Monday, 17 June 2024
WORLD GARDEN WORDS
This Thursday, June 20th at 12 noon
With Lunch and a look at all the different language words that people have come up with for gardening activities, tools and fruit and veg.
Refugee Week started on Saturday. We're proud to be a Garden of Sanctuary, so we're marking the week with a lunch on Thursday 20th June starting at 12noon. This is to celebrate the end of our "World Garden Words" project, a collection of words from as many languages as possible, covering the basic tools, jobs and crops of our community gardens. We aim to make this available to anyone it could be useful for. We have about 35 languages currently, but if anyone would like to help us add to that number, please use this link: https://forms.gle/Z4KBkmP5KHEN5Q366As always, refugees are welcome to come to our gardens, and we're happy to support with plants, seeds and crops if anyone wants to grow where they live - we can help if you have access to a garden or just a windowsill.
As always, refugees are welcome to come to our gardens, and we're happy to support with plants, seeds and crops if anyone wants to grow where they live - we can help if you have access to a garden or just a windowsill.
Foraging, forest bathing, yoga, live music, garden café, arts & crafts, massages, herbal walk, circus skills
Our green urban space brings together people of all abilities, local & diverse communities
This event will help us raise money for our charity, all donations welcome