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Vegetable Planters

Vegetable Planters

  • Location: North London
  • Project Type: Green & Clean Community
  • Area: London
  • Awarded: £1000
  • Status: Completed 

Project Details

A plan to put together large vegetable planters might not at first seem the answer to antisocial behaviour and a crumbling infrastructure but in fact this ideasintoaction project initiated by Mildmay Community Partnership brought together many people of different ethnic backgrounds, encouraging inclusion and exchange of ideas. Now with the help of Mayville Gardening Club and It's Your Community funding a group of young volunteers will install further vegetable planters, hopefully make an impact noone would have previously thought possible.

Project Updates

  • 14/04/2009 Southwell House vegetable planters The Gardening Club were given a grant from O2 for a vegetable planter to be placed on neglected ground in a housing estate. To enhance the ground, we were able to obtain a small grant also, from Awards for All for benches to be placed near the vegetable planter. The work took longer to arrange than we had thought it might, but on the 8th and 9th of April the beautiful planter and benches were installed, and the planter planted with vegetables (potatoes, onions, parsley lettuce) and fruit (rhubarb). We also planted beans against a small wall. It has had a profound impact on the local residents. We are in the process of attracting another fund to put a green roof on the 'lock-ups' next to the vegetable planter to complete the change. Thank you, Jenny & Evelyne
  • 25/02/2009 WING is a subcommittee of Newington Green Action Group (NGAG) (www.newingtongreen.org.uk). We are all volunteers. We obtained Lottery and Forestry Commission grants to develop a wildlife corridor from Clissold Park via Historic Newington Green to (and including) Mildmay Road on the borders of Islington and Hackney. We were also lucky enough to be awarded an O2 grant for bird and insect boxes and a tree to enhance the other grants. The O2 project grant is now complete: the nest and insect boxes have been purchased and distributed, and the tree planted. The second phase is about to be completed: the rest of the trees to be planted, tree pits having now been dug in the agreed areas. We have had excellent support from the tree officers of Islington and Hackney, Chris Ingram of Greenspace, Islington, Newington Green Primary school nursery teachers and children. The photographs show our bird box workshop: making bird and insect boxes and distributing the bird boxes purchased with the O2 grant. Thank you

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