Welcome to Stroud Edible Open Gardens 2012
We are delighted to invite you, once again, to visit the 40 gardens, allotments and orchards that are open over two weekends this year, 16 of them new. In each area the gardeners will be available to share their knowledge and passion for growing. This is a chance to celebrate some of our wonderfully productive gardens and local food growing projects in the Stroud Valleys. We are also offering 10 wonderful workshops. All gardens and workshops are free to enter. (Unfortunately there is no wheelchair access as all the venues are private gardens and allotments and on sloping ground with narrow paths and steps.) Gardeners are careful to make sure their gardens are safe but please take great care. If you need any guidance on accessibility of the gardens please contact Helen Pitel on 01453 762957.
The idea behind the weekends is to encourage as many people as possible to consider growing their own food. Food prices continue to climb and, with the impact of the economy, it has never been a better time to grow your own food.
The Edible Open Gardens team invite you to come and look at private and shared gardens, allotments and orchards and be inspired.
We are very grateful to all the gardeners, without whom these weekends would not be possible. Also our thanks go to the people who have offered us advertising – please support them as they have supported us.
Last year’s event
The weekend was a brilliant success!
Nearly 2,000 garden visits on the weekend of the 9th and 10th July to over 35 edible gardens, allotments and orchards. Amongst the gardens were organic, biodynamic, medicinal, and permaculture gardens, individual, community and vegan allotments, new and mature orchards, rainwater harvesting and forest gardens. The gardeners and allotment holders opened their gardens for free and their passion, knowledge and interest encouraged people to with ideas and techniques for growing their own fruit and vegetables. The free workshops over the weekend on chicken keeping, setting up a community orchard, drawing a garden, and composting can be seen on the Video page.
Want to see more? Watch the Edible Open Gardens 2011 video here or go to the video page
The organisers would like to thank all the wonderful gardeners who made this weekend possible.
Download a copy of the 2011 Evaluation Report here
supports local communities to build a resilient future in the face of rising energy costs and a changing climate. More info at: http://www.transitionstroud.org/
Food prices set to rise
In the 2000 fuel strike, the Sainsbury’s chief executive wrote to the prime minister to warn that food supplies would run out “in days rather than weeks”. The situation is now worse: world food reserves are at historically low levels. It seems clear that not only is our dependence on imports damaging for national food security and harmful to the environment, it is simply unsustainable. |
Be Inspired
With this Edible Open Gardens project Transition Stroud hope to help people learn, but also inspire more local food production at a lower environmental cost than the supermarkets. |
