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A job is being advertised for a Community Horticulture Project Co-ordinator to work in Sudbury. Applications needed by Tuesday 17th January 2017 at 1pm. Click on the link for more info!
A Look Back at 2016
Happy New Year to you all from everyone at greenerSudbury!
It’s always interesting to look back at what’s been achieved over the previous year before preparing for the new one. We met before Christmas for a glass of wine, some home-made mince pies, and a very relaxed end of year celebration.
At the beginning of 2016 we lost our valued member, Jane Carter – but we remember her with great fondness. During the year we continued maintaining the beds she helped create at the Kingfisher Leisure Centre, as well as the tubs at the back of Roy’s and, in May, we began an ongoing project working on the grounds around the Quay Theatre.
We enjoyed a couple of walks in June to enjoy the wild flowers at Coppins Farm, visited The Apricot Centre in August to learn about permaculture and Tiger Hill in October for a Fungus Foray. We invited speakers Dan Wheals and Bob Flowerdew to talk at the Quay Theatre.
In November, the team returned to the bypass near the Homebase roundabout to do some planting, in the hope that the area will bloom for wildlife – and for people – in the summer!
At Siam Gardens, greenerSudbury worked with Orwell Housing residents, Sudbury Town Council community wardens, and Suffolk County Council Community Resilience team to tidy, cut back, sweep up and plant bulbs supplied through Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils. This initiated an exciting community horticulture project rolling out in Sudbury in the near future…
For your diary! The next Siam Garden work party will be on Wednesday 18th January from 9:30 – 11:30am.
Here’s to a happier, healthier and greener Sudbury in 2017!
Friday Tidy!
Join us at 10:00 on the last friday of the month for our…
Friday Tidy!
Meet on 28th October at the Quay Theatre for some sorting out, fixing up and, of course, weeding. New faces always welcome – just come along ready for some gardening!
Bob Flowerdew at the Quay
Just a quick reminder that Bob Flowerdew will be providing some ‘idiosyncratic iconoclastic chat, anecdotes, verse and song’ at the Quay Theatre on Saturday October 15th at 7pm*. The perfect anecdote/antidote for the longer nights! Still some tickets left – available at the Quay.
*Apologies – time is 7pm and not 8pm as previously stated.
Holly’s Forest Sessions.
Kingfisher Beds Tidy Up
A quick reminder that there will be a Tidy-Up session at the Kingfisher wildflower and edible beds, starting at 2pm this Wednesday 31 August.
All welcome!
Pots please!
We are aiming to grow some plants for sale and to plant out in neglected areas, but have run out of pots for sowing seeds… If you are coming to the Quay theatre on Tuesday 19th to hear the lovely Dan Wheals and you have some small and medium plant pots going spare, please bring them along! Thank you!
Quick correction!
Please note that the Permaculture walk and talk is, of course, Tuesday 16th August! Apologies to those who have booked already.
A bit of a sit down…
The tubs which we planted up behind Roy’s store in town are mostly doing very well – the only exception being the tub which is hidden towards the back wall. Too much shade and not enough water? We shall try to come up with a new solution to that problem.
Meanwhile, the plants we introduced into the beds behind the seats – including a small white lilac – appear to have survived and rewarded us with flowers. We hope that they make a difference to anyone who stops for a little bit of a sit down en route to and from Roys and Waitrose!
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