Welcome to Grozone Community Garden, Northwich
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Grozone is a flourishing community garden, horticulture and wildlife project in the middle of Northwich, Cheshire We provide volunteering opportunities for all and social and horticultural therapy for people with mild to moderate depression and anxiety. This 'hidden oasis' is a fantastic place for mind and body, where you can learn new skills or share and develop existing ones in a welcoming and sociable outdoor environment. Grozone re-opening The health and wellbeing of people in our community is our top priority. Following the latest advice from the Government, we’re delighted to announce that we will soon be open again.From the 5th August, we will be running volunteering sessions from 10.00am till 12.00pm and 1.00pm till 3.00pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays. We want to ensure that as many people as possible get to come along. To help with social distancing measures, we need to limit the number of volunteers on site at any one time to 15. To ensure that people aren’t turned away, we therefore need to operate a booking system. For the time being, please only book yourself onto one session per week, and if you want to come every week, please book onto the same weekly session (as this will help us to create volunteer ‘bubbles’). You are welcome to liaise with others to allow you to book onto the same sessions, and if you know someone who can’t book on themselves, you can book a place for them. Please follow this link to make a booking: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/volunteer-sessions-tickets-113768819602 Please only book if you know that you can come along for that session, as we don’t want to deprive others of the opportunity. We hope to be able to relax these measures soon, but in the meantime, thanks for your understanding and patience. We look forward to seeing you again soon. If you usually come as part of a group, please get in touch and we'll do what we can to help. |
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Here is a look at of what we have been up to!
-We have had an average of 23 volunteers come to our regular weekly sessions and an average of 19 toddlers to each of our Monday session plus their parents and carers.
-We won "Outstanding" in Its Your Neighbourhood award from RHS Northwest in Bloom for the second year running.
-We have done around 40 different crafts, had reiki, yoga, lino printing and pilates sessions. We have learnt new board games, read some great short stories, learnt some bushcraft skills and of course grown some amazing food - particularly good year for cucumbers, parsnips, courgettes and beans.
-We had around 125 packed lunches together, sat out on our picnic table (unless really cold weather has chased us into the yurt!). And have cooked around 25 meals in our outdoor kitchen, using our own vegetables.
-We done loads of site maintenance including putting in a new hedge, continuing work in our Forest Garden, improving the toddler area, adding green roofs to our tools containers (Thank you Environment Agency!) and having the first year of our "no dig" system in our allotment, to protect our soil flora and fauna.
There is always more to do - come and join us in 2020 for gardening, company and to top up your wellbeing!!
-We won "Outstanding" in Its Your Neighbourhood award from RHS Northwest in Bloom for the second year running.
-We have done around 40 different crafts, had reiki, yoga, lino printing and pilates sessions. We have learnt new board games, read some great short stories, learnt some bushcraft skills and of course grown some amazing food - particularly good year for cucumbers, parsnips, courgettes and beans.
-We had around 125 packed lunches together, sat out on our picnic table (unless really cold weather has chased us into the yurt!). And have cooked around 25 meals in our outdoor kitchen, using our own vegetables.
-We done loads of site maintenance including putting in a new hedge, continuing work in our Forest Garden, improving the toddler area, adding green roofs to our tools containers (Thank you Environment Agency!) and having the first year of our "no dig" system in our allotment, to protect our soil flora and fauna.
There is always more to do - come and join us in 2020 for gardening, company and to top up your wellbeing!!
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