by Food Durham | Nov 28, 2019 | Food Durham, Growing Durham, Uncategorized
There’s a new community garden in town – Growing Durham’s Edible Gilesgate project worked alongside Durham Action on Single Homelessness to create an edible garden in their carpark. The initial aim was to cheer up the area with a few planters and we commissioned...
by Food Durham | Nov 28, 2019 | Food Durham, Growing Durham, Uncategorized
Join Garden Organic’s campaign to reduce the use of peat-based compost and download our handy guide to making leaf compost. Those of you who follow us on Twitter (look for @Food_Durham) might have noticed a few posts relating to use of peat in garden compost. ...
by foodteam | Jun 15, 2018 | Growing Durham
Children and families in County Durham are getting their hands dirty over the summer by growing their own fruit and vegetables. Growing Healthy County Durham, which provides NHS Healthy Child Programme services in the county, has a Family Initiative Supporting...
by foodteam | Feb 1, 2018 | Growing Durham
Hugely popular no-dig pioneer Charles Dowding gave a talk yesterday at the Bowburn Community Centre in January 2018 as part of his northern tour. Growing Durham were delighted to welcome about 150 people from all around County Durham and beyond, all interested to...
by foodteam | Feb 10, 2017 | Growing Durham
A local environmental group has been presented with an award for turning unused space into a beautiful and productive garden. The ALT Group, based in Blackhill, have been renovating empty space around Blackhill Comrades Club in order to provide a space for both people...
