Thank you all
so much everybody who showed up to help on our Volunteer day last week! And thank you to Roweena and Michelle from Big Local who brought their lovely Tea Clinic and sustained us all!
I can't wait to share all the professional photos from the day, it will hopefully be within a day or two.
Current major Works at Porlock
At the moment, Porlock is shut due to major water works being undertaken. This work will most likely go on for approximately 2 weeks, and there will be no access until this is complete.
Regular Volunteer Tuesdays
When the work is complete, we will start up regular, weekly volunteer days in the garden. We are aiming at being able to open fully to the public somewhere around the beginning of July, but we need lots of people power to reach that goal - so please get in touch if you would like to help out! We want you with us!
In the mean time...
there is another gardening volunteer project I would like to invite all gardening loving volunteers to help me help another gardener friend with! Lovely Marina Kynoch, who is deeply knowledgeable and very passionate about organic gardening and even takes it a step further, with biodynamic gardening; runs the Forest School at Sue Hedley Nursery School in Hebburn. Due to age and illness in the family the maintenance of her amazing green space which brightens the lives of so many children every week, has fallen behind.
It is an amazing space, but it needs some TLC. Marina has never had any help with the garden which she has grown from a plain lawn 15 years ago to what is today a veritable forest in the middle of a housing estate at the bottom of the school's parking lot. Her husband is the only one who occasionally has assisted over the years with heavy lifting and construction projects. But he had a stroke last year, and can no longer help in the garden. Marina is due to retire this summer, but really wants to hand over a well maintained garden to her successor. However, she needs help! This is where we as a community come in:
Marina is so grateful for any help, and has said she even might have a couple of trees to donate to Porlock Gardens! I see this project as a lovely reach out to a fellow gardener who, after her retirement, would like to get more involved in Porlock and even share some of her Biodynamic wisdom with us. This is networking at its best, and ti is a great win for us as well for her and Sue Hedley school!
Best of all; whoever wants to come along, gets to see and experience the absolute wonderland that is Sue Hedley Forest School... It will surely inspire us all as to what is possible to achieve at Porlock!
As the work would have to be done when the children are not in the garden, it would have to be either a Thursday, Friday or Saturday/Sunday.
If you are interested in volunteering for a day at the forest school, please get in touch asap! I would like to try to utilise the time when Porlock is closed for works anyway, so this project is like to be soon.
Thank you so much!
In Comm-Unity,
Lise
(The 3 last photos in this blog are shared from Sue Hedley's public Facebook page)
