Join us this Saturday 27th April for our #Goodtogrow2024 gardening event! Loads of great gardening activities and seeds and propagators for some windowsill gardening too! Enjoy a tour of the garden and meet our beekeepers for a tour of our amazing new apiary and beehives! As well as all of our beautiful fruit trees andContinue reading “Good to Grow Day 2024”
Monthly Archives: April 2024
GoodGym @MOP
GoodGym is community of amazing volunteers who get fit by doing good. GoodGym-ers run, walk and cycle to do physical tasks for community projects and to support isolated and older people. This April we were joined by members of GoodGym Harringay who kindly offered to help out with some of the heavier jobs around theContinue reading “GoodGym @MOP”
Crouch End Sketchers @MOP
Winter sketching sessionWe started the new year on a high at MOP in’24, with a group of artists from the Crouch End Sketchers joining us on the 3rd of January. Alison a local artist and member of the group contacted us around November with a suggestion of the group meeting up for a sketching sessionContinue reading “Crouch End Sketchers @MOP”
Garden Project Plan
Current ProposalPlease find attached below our current proposal to re-develop the Food Growing or Kitchen Garden Area of the Meadow Orchard Community Garden. Our PlansThe Plan is available to view online as a webpage or download as a PDF. The proposal is a working document and has some great links to our planting schedule, plantingContinue reading “Garden Project Plan”
Sowing & Growing
What are we growingOur growing season is really gaining momentum now, from garlic to broad beans, tomatoes to romanesco, all manner of seeds are being sown ready to plant out in our revitalised polytunnel and brand new raised beds. We’ve cultivated the beds in the poly and installed a new row of pallet collar (reclaimedContinue reading “Sowing & Growing”
Green woodworking @MOP
Traditional skillsGreen woodworking is a traditional method of woodworking where freshly cut, or “green,” wood is used, that is wood that hasn’t been kiln-dried or “seasoned”. Green woodworking mainly relies on using hand tools and traditional techniques to work the wood while it is still in its green state, unlike traditional carpentry or joinery whereContinue reading “Green woodworking @MOP”
Meditation – Saturday Mornings
10.50 for 11 am start, in cobhut or outside in the glade or circle if fine. Perhaps with the bees humming. Trees whispering. Birds singing. Stretch and shake out, check-in, twenty minutes’ sit and vision, lightly guided reflecting our combined thoughts. A slow walking meditation. 10’… then laughter, sing, stretch dance. 12.10 pm. And out into the sunshineContinue reading “Meditation – Saturday Mornings”
Mailing list – Sign up
Meadow Orchard Project has a newsletter for keeping up to date with the amazing projects and activities that the volunteers are working on. To sign up, simply click the button below and enter your contact details, you’ll receive a regular email from us! Meadow Orchard Project will use the information you provide on the formContinue reading “Mailing list – Sign up”
Beekeeping
The Bees are back in townWe are proud to announce that we welcomed beekeeping back to Meadow Orchard last Spring! With the advent of the fruit tree blossom we were once again rewarded by the sight of emerging bees foraging in the warmer spring weather after they had been balled up inside their hives overContinue reading “Beekeeping”
Social Farms & Gardens
Meadow Orchard Project is a member of the Social Farms & Gardens network. Social Farms & Gardens is a UK wide charity supporting communities to farm, garden and grow together. Social Farms & Gardens – vision and mission Social Farms and Gardens, help people and communities reach their full potential through nature-based activities as aContinue reading “Social Farms & Gardens”
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