Open Allotment Day: Creative Nourishment

We will have a number of creative activities and refreshments suitable for all ages and ideal for families in the local community to show the benefits of allotment gardening with an interdisciplinary focus on creative engagement.

Optional:
Art walk: A garden made of lines, 4-4.30 &4.30-5pm

Artist duo Kirsty Badenoch and Wayward will lead a creative walk around the allotments, inviting you to experience the beautiful blooms and vivacious veggies through writing and drawing. We’ll embark on a series of playful and meditative experiments, immersing ourselves in wonders of the natural world, telling magical stories and turning things upside down with our imaginations.

Please book your place on the Art Walk here.

Other activities, 12pm-5pm

For general visitors and Engage attendees we will be providing:
– tours of the allotment
– refreshments including site grown teas, coffee & cakes for low low prices
– seed and plant sale
– book sale

Creative activities include:
– printing with flowers and natural ink
– “my favourite thing in the allotment” painting/drawing recording guided by a local artist (me!)
– face painting
– bug house/bird box building
– activity sheets (including a map of the site)

Donations are welcome towards food, drinks and activities. All of the funds raised go towards the costs of running the site managed by elected volunteer committee with the principal aim to make our site self-sustainable by plumbing in a new rainwater system on our site’s shop building, filtering the rainwater to multiple site dip tanks.

Accessibility

If you have any access requirements please let us know on the booking form how we can help you participate in this event.

All on flat concrete/tarmac outside no stairs. No hearing aid loops onsite.
Parking not available onsite, but local parking at Nuffield Road GP and on Nuffield road.

Wear weather appropriate clothing and footwear.