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Cultivation Street Stories

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Cultivation Street is a national campaign to promote and support Britain’s community gardeners, schools and neighbourhood gardens. The campaign was launched five years ago and has now grown to include a database of over a thousand of the UK’s garden projects. It contains a range of strong communities who are encouraging, talking and sharing their advice and guidance.

There are lots of different garden designs and spaces all over the country. Maybe your struggling with the design of your garden or are you looking at starting a garden project. Here are five great stories taken from a selection of different 2017 entries, that will help inspire you.

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Standish lower ground St. Anne’s C.E. Primary School garden

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We started our garden in 2009 with six weed ridden, empty flower beds. The St. Anne’s children have tried to develop a sustainable garden in which the entire school can relax in, use as a place of learning and as a place of tranquillity or prayer.

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We have developed an outdoor learning area that encourages pupils to grow their own food to promote healthy eating and take care of local wildlife, with our wildflower meadow and small pond. We grew lots of vegetables and fruits last year including broccoli, cherries, blueberries and lots more. The garden is a very important part of the school’s campaign about being healthy whilst providing the pupils with the knowledge of where food comes from.

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The children are even reaching out to the community. This year they have planted flower beds at the local bus stop and at the front of our school using money provided by local councillors. We are proud to have pupils working together with adults for the common good, encouraging a sense of pride, ownership and responsibility, not only for the school but for the local area and the world we live in.

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Littleton School Garden

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We started our garden in 2015 and this year we have very big and exciting plans. Our aim is to create a small world area which includes a Dinosaur garden. Plans are now well under way and we are preparing the garden ready to start work on the 15th of March. We want to concentrate mainly on growing vegetables along with six flower tubs. Our winter sweet peas, leeks, spinach and cornflower plants are all doing nicely in pots in our greenhouse.

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We’re in contact with a local garden nursery who have been great! They have donated 35 packets of seeds, bags of compost and horse manure. We are even collecting and utilising the free seed packets from magazines! So far, we have cleared nettles, weeds and have made room for different plots. The children have even made mountains and volcanoes which will be our feature in the Dinosaur garden! Our plans are to have climbing flowers or herbs as a backdrop to the garden, giving it a jungle feel, a sand area as our desert and potentially even a small pond or watering hole!

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Incredible Edible Dunstable community garden

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Our project has been running since 2013. It has become a beacon of light and a little piece of Eden for so many people. We took a huge leap of faith and took on the site because the council no longer cared for it. Currently, we have about 20 volunteers that help out and this year we would love to attract more children to the garden. We will be organising a series of events this year including an Easter egg hunt and we will having our third Big Lunch with our neighbours.

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Friends of Ally Pally Station

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In 2016 we asked local residents and businesses to come along to Alexandra Palace Station for one day in June. They were invited to bring a plant of any kind, with a promise to look after it. Many of our planters were donated, sponsored or handmade. Every garden tidy up we have done so far has proven that everyone dedicated to the project and is taking care of their own plants!

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Our spring bulbs are starting to push through and they look fabulous! We’re not resting on our laurels- it looks lovely but we want to do even more. Alexandra Park have given us felled tree trunks that we are carving into new planters and local schools will be involved in stencilling a new design on the station bridge. We love it as it belongs to everyone – the local deli sponsored our herb garden, a school planted our bay tree, the dry cleaners gave us a pot plant and our local pub is helping us plant climbers for the shelters! We’re now planning a living wall using recycled pallets!

Alexandra Palace has long been known as ‘The People’s Palace’ and we’re creating ‘The People’s Station’.

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Ramridge Primary School Garden

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We run a school garden club every lunchtime for all year groups across the school. It began six years ago when we had an area of grass and paving turned into a purpose built school garden. I (Claire Armstrong) joined the school and was asked to look after the project, a role which I was thrilled to take on. Since then, we have greatly changed, developed and expanded our school garden.

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Mrs Armstrong working with Year 5 pupils to prepare vegetable beds. These boys loved this digging activity.

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This year we are focusing on fruit growing and are planting a grape vine. We already have several fruit trees, and a large strawberry and raspberry bed. We are also fundraising this year, with the hope of getting enough money to buy a bigger and newer greenhouse! We’d like to encourage more wildlife into the garden and the children have been very bust making bug houses, hedgehog hideouts and growing lots of perennial flowers!

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The garden is used by all teachers across the school throughout the curriculum. Most days there is a class using the garden for learning and the children love it. As a school we are very proud of our garden and we are always thinking about how it can be even better.

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April 3, 2017
Top 10 Fundraising ideas…

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Fundraising can be so much fun and is a fantastic way to help raise a little extra cash to develop and support your garden project. There’s tons of fantastic ideas out there, however it can be difficult to know where to begin. Here’s Cultivation Street’s top 10 fundraising picks to help you get started:

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Host a coffee morning

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Coffee, tea, biscuits and cakes make up a great coffee morning! What could be a better way than to share a cuppa and socialise with your neighbours, friends and family.

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Step 1. Choose a date and select a location. Remember to secure a date that doesn’t clash with any events in your community. Make it personal, hold your coffee morning at home or even in the garden as long as the sun shines!

Step 2. Spread the word! Advertise your coffee morning using flyers, posters even on social media and invite neighbours, friends and family.

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Step 3. Help with fundraising. Add some extra activities to your day like a bring and buy sale, ask around for people to donate sell-able items.

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Open garden or garden fete

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Come on in! If you’re a keen gardener why not give yourself the chance to show off your fantastic work and what a great way to socialise with friends and neighbours. Hold an open garden or fete and charge people a small fee on entrance.

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Step 1. Choose a date and spread the word. Put posters or flyers around your local area and in shop windows. Use your social media pages to advertise too!

Step 2. ACTIVITIES! Why not incorporate some extra activities into the day to raise a little extra cash. Something like a bake-athon! Who doesn’t love cake? Have a cake sale! Welly throwing! Great fun to get the kids involved, put your welly wanging skills to the test and see just how far those wellies will travel.

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Step 3. Charge people a small fee on entry.

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Hold a raffle

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A raffle is a fantastic, simple activity to organise. You only need tickets, prizes and a volunteer to be in charge.

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Step 1. Get prizes. Ask friends, family and even local businesses to donate prizes.

Step 2. Tickets! Raffle tickets are easy to get hold of from many stationary and even some pound shops, making them very cheap.

Step 3. Spread the word to your community and advertise your raffle.

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Sponsor me!

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Step 1. Choose your activity. Walk, run, swim or even dance. There are even some crazy or inventive activities like extreme sports, custard boots or a haircut!

Step 2. Collect sponsors. Sponsor forms can be downloaded online, encourage as many people to sponsor your chosen activity. Encourage more people to join in to gain more sponsorship’s.

Step 3. Activity time! Carry out your chosen goings-on, make sure there is someone capturing the moment for proof! Finally collect your sponsors and money.

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Quiz night!

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Step 1. Choose a date and location. Perhaps you want to hold it a home, in the garden, at a local community hall or even down the pub!

Step 2. Question time, come up with 3, 5, or 10 rounds of questions which can easily be found online. Don’t forget to nominate a ‘quiz master’ who will be charge.

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Step 3. Get into teams and choose a team name. Don’t forget to ask around for prize donations for the winning group! You’ll ‘rake’ in support!

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Non-uniform day

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If you are raising money for your school garden, a non-uniform day is brilliant. Kids absolutely love a dress down day at school and what a perfect way of raising a little money to put back into your garden.

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Step 1. Select a day and you could even choose a theme.

Step 2. Shout about it! Make sure all the children know about it and are prepared.

Step 3. Charge a small fee on the day to everyone who dresses down.

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Car booting

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What could be a better way than to get together with your community and sell any old or unwanted items to raise a bit of extra cash?

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Step 1. Collect goods! Start gathering items, even things like your old garden tools, extra veg or even seeds.

Step 2. Choose a date and a car boot to join in with. Remember to pay for your spot and get there early to secure a great one.

Step 3. Sell, sell, and sell!

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Business Sponsors

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Businesses love to get behind and support fantastic local projects to help them develop.

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Step 1. Put together a clear persuasive pitch about your garden project. Make sure you include what you’re doing and how you are helping or benefitting others and the community.

Step 2. Nominate a spokesperson, perhaps with an extra helping hand to go along for support.

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Step 3. Visit local businesses no matter the size of their company.

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Charity car wash

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A charity car wash is a great way to raise funds and awareness for any school or garden project, whilst having fun!

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Step 1. Choose a date and time. Good weather is always works best as people won’t want to get their cars washed on wet days. Weekends are especially good!

Step 2. Find a location, car park can be good. Ensure your location is based near a busy road. Determine a price, around £5-7 is a fair amount. Make sure prior to your event that you are near a water and electricity source.

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Step 3. Create signs and posters, include things like the price and say why you’re raising money as people will be more willing to part with their cash when they know it’s going to a good cause. Spread the word easily on social media and finally, wash some cars!

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Bag Packing

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Bag packing in a local supermarket can be a really easy and fun way to raise money and spread the word about your garden project.

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Step 1. Think about the supermarkets that you would benefit from the most. The bigger the supermarket the better as there will be more checkouts for you to use.

Step 2. Get permission first. Organise this with the shop manager and choose a day that suits everyone.

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Step 3. Get a team of packers together and head to the supermarket. Make sure you have someone covering each aisle for maximum impact. Be green, don’t forget your bags!

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When planning any fundraising events, be sure to tell Cultivation Street on Twitter and Facebook and we’ll be thrilled to help promote what you’re doing. So what are you waiting for… GET FUNDRAISING!

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April 3, 2017
Grow your own sensory garden

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Gardening does take some work, but it should still be fun and not a chore – an activity that all family can enjoy. What could be nicer than sharing your love for all things green with your children? However, many people struggle to get kids in the garden with them. Sound familiar? Then keep reading.

A wonderful way to involve all of the family is to transform your garden space into a child-friendly, sensory environment, full of marvellous and mysterious interactive plants will capture their imagination and tantalise their senses.

Here’s a few suggestions to get you started:

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Sight…

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Swiss chard

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Swiss chard is a vegetable which can also be known as ‘Bright lights’. It has brightly coloured leaf stalks which vary between white, red, pink and yellow. And they are as tasty as they are beautiful. Similar to spinach but easier to grow, one sowing can produce enough chard to last many months.

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Coleus

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Coleus has stunningly coloured foliage in combinations of yellow, red, pink and maroon. It’s considered one of the easiest plants to grow and will do well in almost any type of garden or container. Be careful to keep coleus under watchful eyes as it can spread and grow very rapidly!

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Smell…

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Curry plant

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Many plants will give off a very distinct smell (some more enticing than others). A perfect example that kids will love is the infamous curry plant. It’s part of the daisy family and from its leaves a warm, spicy aroma will fill your nose.

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Pineapple balm

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If the curry plant is not to your taste there are other varieties offering a more delicate scent. Salvia Elegans or more commonly known as pineapple balm have beautiful, tubular, red flowers that give off a sweet scent similar to pineapple. Species of butterfly and hummingbird are attracted by its smell and they love it, so we’re sure your kids will too!

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Touch…

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Sensitive or sleepy plant

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Touch-me-not also known as sleep or sensitive plant is a perennial herb which comes from the pea family. When its leaves are touched, blown or shaken they quickly fold inwards! Studies have said the touch-me-not uses this as a defense mechanism against herbivores. Often they are grown for curiosity, but they will soon become your kids favourite as they’ll love interacting with them!

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Lambs’ ear’s

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Lambs’ ear’s is a ground-covering, hardy perennial. It gets it’s name from the feeling of it’s silvery, soft, fluffy leaves. It will soon become a garden favourite with the children. Not only is it beautiful but they’ll love interacting and playing with this furry plant!

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Hearing…

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Bamboo

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Bamboo are evergreen, perennial plants from the family of grasses. It’s one of the fastest growing plants in the world, with some species growing up to five feet in height in a year! Bamboo stems are usually hollow and therefore will whisper in the wind or when the stems are knocked together they create a booming sound.

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Taste…

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Strawberries

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Taste is probably our most loved sense! Growing your own produce provides you with a wealth of yummy vegetables, fruits and herbs. Strawberries for example are great for kids, they’re known for their bright red colour, juicy texture and of course the sweetness. Strawberries are very easy to grow no matter what size or type of garden you have, you can even try planting them in hanging baskets!

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Mint

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Mint is a great herb to get children’s senses tingling, it can be added to many dishes to enrich the taste!

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