Community Garden

The community garden is at the Poynders Road end of the park, next to the Poynders Gardens Estate.
The garden is run by a group of local people. We welcome all as volunteer gardeners. Some people are more expert than others but we all aim to enjoy what we do and to help each other to do so. We meet regularly on Saturday mornings between 10 and 12.30. Please look at this website to find the next session.
The garden has a number of raised beds and a polytunnel. We don’t have individual plots – we work and harvest collectively and grow fruit, vegetables and flowers. Preparing beds for planting, sowing seeds, potting seedlings, clipping hedges, weeding and watering are all regular tasks. We make our own compost, which regularly needs sieving.
There are often non-gardening jobs to do, such as repairing raised beds and tidying up the site.

We communicate with a WhatsApp group to tell each other when we’ll be there and what tasks there are to do.
We often join in events run by the Friends of Agnes Riley Gardens, including their annual Autumn Fair and days when local people are invited to learn about wildlife in the park.
If you want to join the volunteers please contact us via the Contact Us link.