The Rewilding Project continues into the Spring/Summer season with lots of hardwork and preperation going into the Commmunity Garden sites. The Rewilding Volunteers have been busy on GrOwING Wild Community Garden, Baxenden cutting back bramble from the pathways and stairs to aid access on the site. Woodnook Community Garden has seen extensive brash clearing with […]
Rewilding at St John’s Primary Nuttal site, Great Harwood
The Rewilding project has been working with the pupils at St John’s Primary at their Nuttal site to engage the children in food growing, exploring nature and healthy eating. Project Officer Gareth has delivered numerous activities including; apple juice pressing, making bird feeders, mushroom logs, Tree identification, wildflower bulb & seed planting, Himalayan Balsam removal […]
Rewilding 2023
The Rewilding project continues into 2023 with Project Officer Gareth Muir delivering a weekly Tuesday session on several sites in Hyndburn. A work plan of season tasks will be undertaken by volunteers to grow fruit, vegetables and herbs, alongside planting for pollinators. Tasks over the coming months will include: composting, mulching, seed sowing, pruning, fruit […]
Crafting Club October Half Term 2022
PROSPECTS delivered an Autumn Themed Crafting Club at GrOwING WILD Community Alloment, Baxenden during the October half term. Participants looked at Autumn tree and plant identification signs, made an autumnal bean stew and whittled some mushrooms from hazel and birch wood! One participant gave the following feedback: “It was a fantastic day. Everyone seemed to […]
Rewilding – Hyndburn Harvest
Thanks to a generous donation by the Arnold Clarke Community Fund, PROSPECTS has purchased apple juicing equipment! https://www.arnoldclark.com/community-fund Our Rewilding Officer Gareth, will be organising several juice pressing activities from late August onwards. Check our Events Calendar to see when and where the sessions will be held – https://prospectsfoundation.org.uk/events/ We ask that participants bring a […]
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Welcome to our New Rewilding Officer
Meet Gareth Muir, our new Rewilding Officer. Gareth comes to us from TCV in Leeds and has a wealth of experience working with local communities on food growing and other conservation projects. Gareth will initially be concentrating on setting up our ‘Growing Together 2021’ programme whereby we’ll be sending out home food growing packs to […]
Funding Success!
Great news! Announced today – Monday 23rd November 2020 – we’re one of 300+ community organisations to secure a CCLORS grant. It’ll help us provide vital support to our local community, particularly those most impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. We’re planning to use the grant to develop our Growing Together initiative that we ran during […]
Foraging for food
Have you ever tried a Spring nettle soup or the subtle taste of wild garlic in a salad or omelette? Wild spring greens are in abundance at this time of year along with the first edible flowers that are starting to appear such as nettles, wild garlic, lady’s smock, violets, primroses, chickweed, rosebay willow herb shoots….. Whilst […]
Growing food from kitchen waste and seeds
I like growing useful plants and it’s the time of year when we start to think about what edibles we can plant and sow in our gardens and allotments for the spring and summer. But what if you don’t have a lot of space to grow at home? Have you got a sunny spot on […]