Planting Up - Milton Keynes

14/07/2024

We are cancelling the Planting Up garden work party at Westbury Arts Centre today (due to Covid). Sorry guys!
See you Sunday 28 July instead.

04/07/2024

🎉Dragonfly Week takes place from 6th - 14th July 🐉

Keep an eye out for dragonflies like this and others being profiled on the British Dragonfly Society page.

You can often see all sorts of dragonflies darting around the moat beside our community garden at Westbury Arts Centre. Join us for our next garden work party on Sunday 14 July to see what you can find.

In the meantime, enjoy your adventures. We look forward to seeing more amazing photos like this being shared.🤩

Countdown to Dragonfly Week continues with the Blue-tailed Damselfly 🐉💙
Commonly encountered blue and black damselfly
This species has a two-toned wing spot, largely black abdomen with a blue spot near the end, blue narrow shoulder stripes and blue on the eyes.
The females are similar but can come in a several other colour forms

Don’t forget to add your sighting to iRecord and contribute to a national database that informs our conservation work! 🙌

And join us at an event > https://loom.ly/MS-3rPA

21/06/2024

There's so much happening this weekend and Planting Up MK is proud to be a part of it!

We'll be meeting on:

💚 SAT 22 JUNE at 12pm to join the march in London for some family friendly fun as our nation demonstrates our demands for the next government to Restore Nature Now - https://www.restorenaturenow.com/
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🌱 SUN 23 JUNE at 10.30am for green-fingered friends to do some gardening at Westbury Arts Centre before indulging in delish "bring & share" lunch together.
https://plantingup.co.uk/events/planting-up-volunteer-garden-work-party-with-bring-share-lunch-every-second-fourth-sunday-of-the-month/

🪲 Then, later in the day on Sunday, we'll see you at the Midsummer Festival in central to celebrate the summer solstice.
https://www.destinationmiltonkeynes.co.uk/events/midsummer-festival-2024/

See you there! 💚🌱 🪲

21/06/2024

We're moving our garden work parties at Westbury Arts Centre to the second and fourth Sunday of the month.🌿

19/06/2024

Installation of our brand new welcome sign in our community garden at . Big thanks to local creators, Millery Design and Reliq, and the funding that made it happen from Transition Network.
See the full story on our website at https://plantingup.co.uk/our-new-sign/

06/06/2024

We'll be back in our "food forest" community garden at Westbury Arts Centre this Saturday.

Come join us from 10.30am if you fancy helping us to get a grip on the abundance of plants we have growing in the wrong places! 😉

As always, we'll be stopping for a "bring & share" lunch together from 1pm.

All welcome!

11/05/2024

Rhubarb we potted from the community garden today. Free to a good home!

27/04/2024

The garden is growing fast! 2 weeks ago we removed a lot of new raspberry shoots from the path, which all went to a new home in the Westbury Arts Centre caretaker's garden. Who knows what today will bring...

Although I do know we've got rhubarb coming out of our ears to give away... and vegan Pad Thai on the menu for lunch! 😉

We'll be at Westbury Arts Centre from 10.30am - 1.30pm today.
All welcome!

See you in the garden.

23/02/2024

Join us in the Planting Up forest garden at Westbury Arts Centre tomorrow, Sat 24 Feb! We'll be working in the garden from 10.30am then doing some planning and having a bring & share lunch. Everyone welcome! 🙂

15/02/2024

Just a reminder that it's the annual Bletchley Seed Swap this Saturday!

10am - 2pm at Freeman Memorial Methodist Church Hall, Buckingham Rd, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK3 5HH

The sixteenth Bletchley SEED SWAP will be held on Saturday 17th February 2024 from 10am - 2pm at at Freeman Memorial Methodist Church Hall.

25/01/2024

Why and How to Grow a Garden without Tilling
Full guide in the first comment 💬👀

27/10/2023

We'll be back in our at Westbury Arts Centre from 10.30am tomorrow, Saturday 28 October.

The plan is to continue our work building up the garden path - so please bring along any cardboard you can spare.

We'll also be cutting back some of the raspberry canes and generally tidying up any stragglers in our beautiful food forest.

Then after our usual "bring & share" lunch, bring out your pumpkins, because we'll be doing some pumpkin carving ready for .

See you there!